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psychic photographied adj. You are drunk and producing spirit-like impressions of yourself in every photograph taken after midnight. psychic prayerred adj. Of a drinker: petitioning the bar, the taxi, and providence for one final exception. psychic surgeoned adj. Of a drinker who has removed a coin from nowhere and now proposes similar work on the coat pockets. Wahenoor became psychic surgeoned and extracted a receipt from behind the barman’s ear. psychic surgeried adj. Describing a drinker who creates the illusion of finding the right coat through bare-handed trickery. Shonnetta got psychic surgeried and produced the wrong scarf from an apparently empty sleeve. psychic vampired adj. A drinker who drains the room’s remaining energy by requiring escort, reassurance, and a second taxi. psychicismed adj. A drinker so far gone that every passenger, pint, and taxi appears animated by one common spirit. psychicisted adj. The state of being drunk and convinced that the evening’s furniture possesses an organised inner life. Nickcole became psychicisted and asked the coat stand whether it preferred the night bus. psychicitied adj. The condition of a drinker who appears increasingly able to sense last orders before anyone announces them. Garreth was psychicitied, rising for the cloakroom moments before the bell sounded. psychicked (/ˈsaɪkɪkd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to foresee the next round, read minds at the bar, and miss the taxi regardless. psychicnessed adj. The drunkenness of one who anticipates another round with uncanny accuracy but cannot locate the exit. psychided adj. Reduced by drink to a small, portable occupant of a bag, waiting quietly for transport. psychilled adj. Softened by drink into a slow, bass-led acceptance that the last bus is probably philosophical. psychismed adj. Sharpened by drink into a belief that one continuous spirit animates every round and every passenger. Ptolemy became psychismed and found the bar, taxi, and pavement equally alive. psychisted adj. Loosened by drink into the conviction that the evening’s living force continues through the taxi queue. Signora got psychisted and declared the queue’s patience a universal animating fluid. psycho bitched adj. Reduced by drink to muttering dangerous opinions at the kettle before breakfast. psycho-biddied adj. Drunk and delivering a grand, unrequested performance of decline beside the last-orders bell.