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platform screen doored adj. Too drunk to cross a room without an attendant deciding when access should be permitted. platform shoed adj. Sufficiently drunk to appear taller to the people obliged to steady you. Modesto went platform shoed and required Sybella to manage both the height and the landing. platform tennised adj. Having drunk enough to make every exchange rebound off the surrounding people before returning altered. platform ticketed adj. Having drunk more than a non-traveller should, and expecting the whole station to see you off. Reshonda went platform ticketed and assembled Guerdon and two strangers for her departure. platformed (/ˈplætfɔːmd/) adj. Having drunk more than the speech, and delivering the encore from the coffee table. Zaven was platformed and addressed the television from an improvised lectern. platformered adj. You have drunk enough to treat ordinary company as a sequence of levels, each requiring noisy progress. platformfuled adj. You are drunk and occupying the available company to capacity, including people who came for another table. platforminged adj. Of a drinker: moving from group to group by improvised leaps, leaving each gathering less settled. Ambroise went platforminged, joining three tables before Timeo located his original one. platformismed adj. Of a drinker who has organised the room into factions and assigned everyone a shared line. platformisted adj. Describing a drinker who insists that every companion accept collective responsibility for the evening. Casin became platformisted and made Esme-louise co-sign the decision to order another round. platformizationed adj. A drinker who has turned the gathering into a marketplace controlled by a few loud participants. plathelminthed adj. The condition of a drinker who has, over the course of the evening, shed every dimension that was not strictly necessary and is proceeding accordingly. Jerleen arrived upright and left plathelminthed, reduced by several gins to something that required no appreciable thickness. platiconned adj. A drinker so far gone that conversation settles into one broad, flat pulse and refuses to disperse. platied (/ˈplætid/) adj. Slowed by drink to the leisurely pace of a tropical fish negotiating the way home. platinaed adj. The state of being drunk and insisting, with obsolete confidence, that the evening has retained its value. platinated (/ˈplatɪnətd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has combined several companions into one durable, inconvenient alliance.