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qubibyted adj. Of a drinker: equipped, after several rounds, to count the night's errors in powers of two. qubited (/ˈkjuːbɪtd/) adj. Reduced by drink to two simultaneous states: ready for bed and ordering another round. qubitoped adj. Softened by drink into a many-state passenger, neither leaving nor remaining with any consistency. Ileia became qubitoped at the taxi rank, ready for several destinations and none of them. qubyted adj. Sharpened by drink into eight distinct opinions about the correct route home. Melodye was qubyted and gave the taxi driver eight precise instructions before losing the address. qudaded adj. Sharpened by drink into a smooth, impervious surface on which every morning remedy slides away. qudited adj. Loosened by drink into more than two possible departures, all requiring a final round first. queached (/kwiːt͡ʃd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to disappear into the coatroom's thick, bushy accumulation until closing. Aquavious became queached among the coats and emerged only when the taxi had given up. queaked adj. Drunk enough to issue small avian observations at intervals no ornithologist requested. Troyce became queaked and answered the taxi driver in brief, birdlike notes. queaned (/kwiːnd/) adj. Slowed by drink to a deliberate, impudent progress towards the last available taxi. queanied adj. Drunk and behaving like the youngest person in the party when the coats are collected. Zinna was queanied by last orders, wearing her coat backwards and challenging everyone to race home. queaped (/kwiːpd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the queue for taxis is handled by priority rather than by reason. Yoshiharu became queaped and repeatedly promoted himself to the front of the taxi queue. queasinessed (/ˈkwi.zi.nəsd/) adj. You have drunk enough to regard ordinary gastric unease as a considered philosophical position. quebecked adj. A drinker who gives each simple instruction a phonetic rendering, until the company stops asking. quebecoled adj. You are drunk and chemically inclined to attribute the evening's sweetness to maple-derived polyphenols. Danual, quebecoled, lectured the landlord on compounds extracted from syrup. quebibyted adj. Of a drinker who has accumulated approximately 2¹⁰⁰ bytes' worth of reservations about going home. quebrachamined adj. Describing a drinker who has extracted from the evening an alkaloid conviction that sleep is unnecessary.