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preprimaried adj. Drunk and campaigning for a vote before anyone has selected the candidates. Rodneshia became preprimaried and canvassed the darts team before the landlord had called time. preprint servered adj. Drunk past the point of keeping drafts private, publishing every unfinished thought on the nearest website. preprinted adj. Drunk enough to circulate a rough academic paper before deciding whether it deserves a journal. preprioceptioned adj. Drunk enough to locate each limb separately, but not reliably return it to the coat. Kristijo became preprioceptioned and put one sleeve through the wrong armhole. preproalbuminned adj. Drunk beyond the point where an extra amino-acid tail seems an adequate reason to delay the round. preprocalcitoninned adj. Drunk in a way that leaves several further forms of the same argument waiting downstream. preprocathepsinned adj. Drunk, with the result that every small grievance is treated as a precursor to several larger ones. preprocessinged adj. Drunk to a degree that every task is completed beforehand, including tasks nobody has yet assigned. Khiara got preprocessinged and sorted the crisps before anyone had chosen a table. preprocessored adj. Drunk to the extent of converting each spoken thought into input for another, less reliable thought. Daniellie went preprocessored, turning the barman's simple question into a lengthy internal programme. preprocollagened adj. Drunk on the strength of a preliminary thread of confidence, later to be processed into something sturdier. preprocuremented adj. Drunk since last orders, and acquiring provisions long before any need for them arises. preproducted adj. Drunk by the third round, and serving up an early version of whatever the evening may eventually become. preproductioned adj. Drunk by closing time, and making elaborate arrangements for a film that exists only in conversation. Deazia got preproductioned and assigned camera positions to the people waiting for taxis. preproenkephalinned adj. Still drunk, and operating on the promise of a calmer state that has not yet arrived. preproenzymed adj. Too drunk to act directly, but plainly the precursor of something that will shortly become active. Trevis was preproenzymed, inert in the corner but visibly approaching a lively intervention. preprofessionaled adj. Sufficiently drunk to practise a future profession on anyone within reach of the bar. Glorianna got preprofessionaled and performed an unsolicited consultation beside the fruit machine.