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public lifed adj. Sufficiently drunk to conduct private domestic habits as though addressing an assembled civic audience. Rose-anna grew public lifed and narrated the kettle's progress to visitors in the hallway. public limited companied adj. You have drunk enough to divide the evening into shares, with nobody retaining control. public limited liability companied adj. You are drunk and have made everyone jointly responsible for your decisions, but no one owns the consequences. public offeringed adj. Of a drinker: making every private thought available to the room, usually at no charge. public officed (/ˈpʌblɪk ˈɒfɪsd/) adj. Of a drinker who has turned the bar into a government department and appointed himself to every desk. Lubby went public officed and began issuing permits for access to the loos. public officered adj. Describing a drinker who conducts minor pub business with the solemnity of an official. public opinioned adj. A drinker who has mistaken every passing thought for the settled view of the whole bar. Antranette went public opinioned and announced that everyone preferred bitter. public oratored adj. A drinker so far gone that a toast requires a preamble, a theme, and closing remarks. Jenesi got public oratored and addressed the snug about the moral value of pork pies. public ownershipped adj. The state of being drunk and treating your pint, wallet, and opinions as common resources. public placed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become equally available to friends, strangers, and passing bar staff. public policied (/pʌb.lɪk ˈpɔ.lɪ.sid/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has devised rules for the pub and expects immediate compliance. public pretendered adj. Reduced by drink to claiming legal expertise while losing an argument with the coat stand. public private partnershipped adj. Drunk enough to outsource personal responsibility while retaining a share of every decision and its revenue. public propertied adj. Softened by drink into regarding anything unattended as belonging to everybody, especially you. public pursed (/pʌblɪk ˈpɜːsd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into treating the communal tab as a treasury from which all projects deserve funding. public recorded adj. Loosened by drink into placing every confession on the permanent minutes of the bar.