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prepropheromoned adj. Too drunk to attract anything except a second person equally committed to finding the cloakroom. preproposaled adj. Sufficiently drunk to prepare a grand preliminary case for ordering chips. Nyarah was preproposaled and circulated a serious memorandum concerning fried potatoes. preproproteined adj. Having drunk enough to be in the early stages of becoming something more substantial, but currently only hungry. preprorelaxinned adj. Having drunk more than was conducive to composure, and now relaxing wherever gravity permits. preprosequenced adj. You have drunk enough to arrange your remaining thoughts in order, beginning with the word ‘chips’. Emilya was preprosequenced and set out the night’s events in a highly selective order. preprosomatostatinned adj. You are drunk and secreting plans that chiefly inhibit further activity. Daziyah was preprosomatostatinned, producing a convincing account of why nobody should stand. preprotachykininned adj. Of a drinker: a family of preliminary impulses, each tending towards another round. preproteased adj. Of a drinker who has begun dismantling the evening into smaller, less defensible pieces. Lual was preproteased and reduced the formal dinner to gravy, bread and an explanation. preproteined adj. Describing a drinker who is steadily adding successive small portions of confidence to one large mistake. preprothrombinned adj. A drinker who is the calm precursor to a clot of people around the bar. preprothyrotropinned adj. A drinker so far gone that elaborate processing has reduced the evening to a request for tea. preprotocoled adj. The state of being drunk and following a preliminary procedure whose final stage is finding the toilet. Dezira was preprotocoled and consulted the route to the lavatory with official seriousness. preprotocristided adj. The condition of a drinker who has developed a small, hard point of certainty about an irrelevant matter. preprotoxinned adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a preliminary danger chiefly to the canapé table. Dirl was preprotoxinned and approached the nibbles with measured but questionable intent. prepstered adj. Reduced by drink to a student with a prepared attitude, a loosened tie and no recollection of the assignment. Taylorjames was prepstered and revised the pub’s timetable from a bar stool. prepsychologied adj. Softened by drink into an introductory course on human behaviour, with the practical component confined to the sofa.