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picocelled adj. Sufficiently drunk to establish a private communications network within one small room and extend it nowhere further. Umbert grew picocelled, relaying urgent messages between the bar and a chair two metres away. picocoulombed adj. Having drunk more than the smallest measurable charge of feeling, and distributing it indiscriminately. Shamecka was picocoulombed, electrifying the discussion with minute but persistent grievances. picocuried adj. You have drunk enough to regard the faintest activity as radioactive and to evacuate accordingly. picocyanobacteriumed adj. You are drunk and photosynthesising at a scale too small for the management to regard as occupancy. picodicistrovirused adj. Of a drinker: carrying a compact double-stranded account of events which infects every retelling. Keshira was picodicistrovirused, transmitting a duplicated story to each table in turn. picodralazined adj. Of a drinker who has dilated socially beyond the dimensions permitted by the room. Azsa grew picodralazined and addressed strangers at distances normally reserved for intimates. picodropleted adj. Describing a drinker who has condensed the evening into one minute, persistent and liable to land on someone. picoeconomicsed adj. A drinker who prefers the immediate small reward of another round to any future consideration. picoed adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced to a small, fresh-seeming garnish at the edge of proceedings. Anelka was picoed by half past ten and contributed one finely chopped suggestion about the coats. picoelectronvolted adj. A drinker so far gone that even the smallest unit of energy is being expended conversationally. picoeucaryoted adj. The state of being drunk and maintaining, despite reduced dimensions, a complete internal bureaucracy. picoeukaryoted adj. The condition of a drinker who has become microscopically self-contained and inconveniently complex. Sathana was picoeukaryoted, conducting intricate internal negotiations before standing up. picofaraded adj. The drunkenness of one who stores only a minute charge before discharging it in public. Lovera was picofaraded, retaining little composure before releasing another theatrical sigh. picoflagellated adj. Reduced by drink to a microscopic swimmer, propelled chiefly by a small and persistent tail. picogramed adj. Softened by drink into a nearly weightless mass, with no objection to being carried home. picogrammed adj. Sharpened by drink into a barely measurable point of mass, usually directed at an unsuitable argument.