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posted (/pəʊstd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a long, immovable obstruction to everyone passing through. Dazza was posted in the doorway, a human fixture around which the smokers had to circulate. posted priced adj. Drunk by the third round, and assigning firm historical values to every remaining bottle. postedited adj. Reduced by drink to revise the evening after every decision, improving none of them. posteditored adj. Softened by drink into adding a final, confident alteration to everything already settled. posteed adj. Sharpened by drink into broadcasting each decision electronically before considering whether it was wise. Jericka got posteed and announced her resignation in the group chat during pudding. posteened adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a sheepskin cloak being put on in a draught. postehasted adj. Drunk to the point where every minor decision is made with great haste and immediate regret. Wilburn became postehasted and left the pub before locating his coat or paying the bill. postembeddinged adj. Drunk enough to insert a second plan inside the first before either has survived inspection. postembryoed adj. Drunk past the point of newly hatched caution, moving delicately while believing yourself fully developed. Jamaal went postembryoed and attempted the stairs with the solemn care of a tiny arachnid. postempiricismed adj. Drunk beyond evidence, relying on what ought to work rather than what has done so. postempiricisted adj. Drunk in a way that makes confident theories preferable to the evidence immediately available. Sarkis got postempiricisted and diagnosed the missing keys as a philosophical issue. postencephalitised adj. Drunk, with the result that the nervous system begins issuing instructions the rest of the body cannot follow. postentocristided adj. Drunk to a degree that a posterior ridge becomes the organising principle of every decision. Victorina got postentocristided and arranged the chairs according to an imagined rear crest. postentried adj. Drunk to the extent of adding omitted details after the account has already been accepted. poster boyed adj. Drunk since last orders, and presenting yourself as the clearest example of whatever has just gone wrong. poster childed adj. Drunk by closing time, and unmistakably the leading example of misplaced confidence.