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signal fired adj. Drunk since last orders, and attempting to communicate by light, smoke and increasingly warm gestures. signal gantried adj. Still drunk, and spanning the route with rigid supports while giving contradictory instructions to passing traffic. signal indicationed adj. Drunk by the third round, and assigning a private meaning to every railway light and pub glance. signal ladded adj. Still drunk, and recording the times of every departure from the bar with professional seriousness. Maurio was signal ladded, noting each exit from the pub on the back of a beer mat. signal passed at dangered adj. Too drunk to stop at an obvious warning, particularly when the barmaid has said last orders. signal phrased adj. Sufficiently drunk to mark every recollection as either a quotation or a paraphrase. signal pistolled adj. Having drunk enough to discharge sudden illuminated declarations across the bar. Hank became signal pistolled and announced his affection for the whole public house. signal posted adj. Having drunk more than enough to stand fixed above the proceedings, visibly directing traffic. Britton got signal posted and stationed himself by the doorway to supervise arrivals. signal processinged adj. You are drunk and analysing every sound, picture and clatter into separate pub events. signal strengthed adj. Of a drinker: broadcasting at full volume, though reception deteriorates with every round. signal timinged adj. Of a drinker who has drunk enough to distribute right of way between interruptions with solemn precision. signal tracered adj. A drinker who troubleshoots every pause in conversation by following it back to its source. signal transductioned adj. A drinker so far gone that one chemical suggestion at the bar triggers an elaborate chain of reactions. signal-noise ratioed adj. Drunk to the extent of extracting one solemn announcement from a roomful of indistinguishable remarks. signal-to-noise ratioed adj. Drunk on the strength of the information conveyed, though it concerned only the whereabouts of the crisps. signal-to-noised adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing which parts of the conversation are carrying information and which are not.