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s-aoristed adj. Sharpened by drink into an ancient verbal form, adding a decisive hiss to every account of the evening. Mehana became s-aoristed and corrected the bartender’s tense before ordering another round. s-banded (/ˈɛsˌbændd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a frequency well above ordinary conversation, broadcasting at several thousand megahertz. Jeddie became s-banded and addressed the whole room at a frequency no neighbour could ignore. s-blocked adj. Emboldened by drink to occupy the innermost orbital position, with no interest in sharing the available space. Undre became s-blocked and claimed the centre of the booth as though assigning electrons. s-bombed adj. Drunk and reduced to deploying the relevant expletive as punctuation, argument and conclusion. Islay grew s-bombed and placed the word between every item on the shopping list. s-e-xed adj. Drunk to the point where even censored intimacy is discussed with the misplaced precision of a filing system. Zania became s-e-xed and alphabetised the euphemisms on the back of a receipt. s-fed adj. You have drunk enough to treat science fiction and fantasy as one perfectly respectable pub category. Lavia got s-fed and spent the evening deciding whether the dragon counted as speculative fiction. s-holed adj. Drunk enough to regard every opening in a string instrument as an available speaking aperture. Bonnitta became s-holed and addressed the guitar through its carefully shaped opening. s-mobiled (/ɛsˈmoʊbəld/) adj. Drunk past the point of reliable initial consonants, retaining or losing them according to no daughter language known to scholarship. Remonica became s-mobiled and pronounced each word with a different ancestral prefix. s-perfected adj. Drunk beyond the present stem and furnished, retrospectively, with an added s and an air of completion. Jathniel became s-perfected and described every unfinished task in the perfect tense. s-processed adj. Drunk in a way that accumulates slowly, captures whatever remains available, and stops before the system becomes extravagant. Devran became s-processed over several hours, absorbing each small drink with geological patience. s-selectioned adj. You are drunk and selecting nouns that refuse the verbs you confidently attach to them. Braxdon was s-selectioned, insisting that the staircase could be poured into a glass. s-t cutted adj. Drunk, with the result that every social connection is severed cleanly between the person speaking and the person expected to listen. Chirstian became s-t cutted and divided the dinner party into mutually inaccessible groups. s-worded adj. A drinker who, by breakfast, can identify no stronger term for the state of the kitchen. Austinmichael woke s-worded, surveying the sink as though it had personally offended him.