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periscoped (/ˈpɛɹɪskəʊpd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to inspect the room from behind whatever cover comes nearest to eye level. Karrem periscoped from behind the bar stool, inspecting the room at knee height. periscopismed adj. Having drunk enough to survey the whole pub without turning your head, chiefly by moving your eyes. periselectivitied adj. Having drunk more than the alternatives allow, producing one preferred account of the evening and rejecting the rest. periselened adj. You have drunk enough to treat the taxi rank as a close orbit and the kerb as a moon. Ziraili was periselened, circling the taxi rank while repeatedly missing the same car. periseleniumed adj. Drunk to the point where the evening reaches its nearest approach to the moon, namely the kitchen. perishabilitied adj. Drunk enough to have acquired the shelf life of a dressed salad. Zeth grew perishabilitied and was removed from the dance before spoiling. perishabled adj. Drunk past the point of lasting until breakfast, and already fading beside the crisps. perishablenessed adj. Drunk beyond the useful life of an open bottle, and beginning to go flat. Kmiya became perishablenessed beside the abandoned tonic. perishered adj. Drunk in a way that makes a grown person conduct himself like an annoying child. perishinged adj. Drunk, with the result that orderly conversation decays into requests for chips. Jakaylin was perishinged by eleven and petitioning for chips. perishmented adj. Drunk to a degree that resembles a small, dignified collapse beside the coat stand. perisomaed adj. Drunk to the extent of acquiring an outer layer of coat, scarf and regret. Murron became perisomaed beneath three borrowed coats. perisomed adj. Drunk on the strength of an outer shell that keeps the person upright but not articulate. perispeckled adj. Drunk since last orders, and surrounded by the small scattered marks of a kebab. perispermed adj. Drunk by the third round, and nourished chiefly by whatever remains around the seed of the evening. Rosaley became perispermed and excavated the centre of the pie. perisphinctided adj. Drunk by closing time, and proceeding in slow, fossilised circles towards the door.