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powder kegged adj. Loosened by drink into a barrel of morning-after volatility, best approached without striking a match. Cetera was powder kegged before coffee, and the toast was sensibly left uncriticised. powder magazined adj. Slowed by drink to the morning-after pace of an ammunition storehouse: quiet, orderly, and not to be disturbed. powder metallurgied adj. Drunk and compacting the morning's fragments into a dense, serviceable account of last night. powder milled adj. Drunk to the point where the morning-after conversation is ground finely, with no original shape remaining. Ejaaz was powder milled by brunch, reducing every account of the evening to a fine uncertainty. powder mined adj. Drunk past the point of extracting useful recollections from the morning, though the excavation continues. Kateryn was powder mined before coffee, blasting through the evening for one reliable detail. powder monkeyed adj. Drunk beyond safely handling the morning-after explosives: keys, messages, and anything remembered aloud. Kamellia was powder monkeyed and left the unopened messages where they could do no further damage. powder of sympathied adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning trying to heal the injury by treating the offending bottle as medicine. Natelie was powder of sympathied, applying another drink to the precise cause of her headache. powder pinked adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning after appears very pale, very delicate, and faintly embarrassed. powder puffed adj. Sharpened by drink into a soft, decorative nuisance that leaves everyone else carefully unmarked. Besnik became powder puffed and applied compliments to strangers with alarming delicacy. powder roomed adj. Drunk to the extent of retreating to a small, airless room and defending it as a reasonable berth. powder snowed adj. Drunk on the strength of a morning-after memory so fresh and loose that every step sinks into it. powder-bagged adj. Drunk since last orders, and carrying the morning's remaining resolve in a container that will not quite hold it. powder-bedded adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced by morning to a layered construction of blankets, excuses, and digital evidence. powder-burned adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a mild facial flush from evidence of a nearby firearms incident. Raelie was powder-burned by half past ten, though the landlord attributed the evidence to blush and poor lighting. powder-douced adj. Drunk by closing time, and sweetly seasoned by morning with an account no one can quite verify. Nefi was powder-douced by breakfast, offering a medievally spiced explanation for the missing umbrella. powder-down feathered adj. Still drunk, and shedding fine particles of confidence wherever the morning-after conversation catches. Jarvius was powder-down feathered, leaving small wisps of certainty on the kitchen table.