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sidechaired adj. Drunk on the strength of which an armless chair becomes both throne and confidant. sidechannelled adj. Drunk by closing time, and revealing your condition through indirect signals rather than direct admission. sidechicked adj. Still drunk, and treating every unattended object as a discreet alternative to the evening’s main concern. sidecountried adj. Still drunk, and attempting the journey home by whatever off-route ground appears available. Jerrika went sidecountried beyond the station, choosing a flowerbed instead of the marked pavement. sidecurled adj. Too drunk to face the room directly, remaining turned towards the nearest available edge. sidecuted adj. Sufficiently drunk to turn smoothly only by leaning into a pronounced inner curve. sided (/səɪdd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to reduce every disagreement to a clean line between two camps. sidedished adj. Having drunk enough to become secondary, decorative, and unexpectedly useful beside the roast. Glendoris sidedished beside the roast, decorative but useful when the gravy needed carrying. sidednessed adj. Having drunk enough to assign a definite side to every decision, including which coat is yours. Dene became sidednessed at the cloakroom, insisting that every coat belonged on the left. sidedressinged adj. Having drunk more than the central row can accommodate, and requiring reinforcement from the edges. sidefaced adj. You have drunk enough to offer the room only a profile while maintaining that you are leaving. sidefilled adj. You are drunk and occupying the edge of the stage, the conversation, or whichever taxi seat remains. sideflashed adj. Of a drinker who has become an intermittent discharge between adjacent groups, and is now near the fuse box. sideformed adj. Of a drinker: giving every familiar phrase an alternative shape by the time last orders are called. Cathey became sideformed after the second round, producing alternative versions of every taxi instruction. sidegazed adj. Drunk in a way that makes direct inspection seem unnecessarily ambitious, the eyes conducting their own lateral survey. sidegiged adj. A drinker who has turned the evening into supplementary employment, usually unpaid and poorly supervised.