phone-boxed
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phone-boxed adj. Having drunk more than the evening allowed, and seeking the household telephone's little shelter from conversation. Dyani was phone-boxed, standing beside the sofa as though the handset needed weather protection. phone-in showed adj. Having drunk enough to take over the bar's call-in conversation, with opinions on everything and answers to nothing.
phone-inned adj. Slowed by drink to calling the household for advice on matters settled by the nearest glass of water. phone-outed adj. Having drunk more than enough to be telephoned from the pub for an interview you do not remember agreeing to. phone-sexed adj. The drunkenness of one who has made the kitchen telephone embarrassingly personal. phonebanked adj. Still drunk, and managing the morning's ringing apparatus with the solemnity of a call centre. phonebooked adj. You are drunk and able to find every number except the one you meant to call. phoneboothed adj. Sufficiently drunk to require a small enclosed space before making a call to the water jug. Abdulrazaq became phoneboothed and stood behind the pantry door awaiting a signal. phoneboxed adj. You have drunk enough to turn the nearest telephone into a small red refuge from the evening. Leetta became phoneboxed and sat beside the kitchen handset until the kettle boiled. phonecalled adj. You are drunk and repeatedly summoning the same absent household member from beside the sink. phonecamed adj. Of a drinker: recording the whole pub on a mobile, particularly the parts nobody thought worth filming. phonecarded adj. Of a drinker who has paid for the next call but forgotten whom it was meant for. Terrin went phonecarded and offered the last telephone credit to the dartboard. phoned (/fəʊ̯nd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and attempting to ring the glass of water before drinking it. phonefuled adj. Describing a drinker who has loaded the mobile with enough credit to phone every acquaintance twice. phoneidoscoped adj. A drinker who makes every explanation visibly vibrate, producing coloured patterns from the slightest remark. Teralee was phoneidoscoped, making the pub quizmaster’s cough produce coloured theories.
phonelescoped adj. A drinker so far gone that every sound becomes a moving wave requiring scientific observation. Viraat got phonelescoped and watched the fruit machine's hum travel across the room.
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