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SED'd adj. Drunk by closing time, and displaying several distinct bright ideas at once, none properly connected. Breyell was SED'd at the till, producing a colourful sequence of reasons to stay open. SEDBUK'd adj. Drunk on the strength of domestic calculations, then found incapable of heating anything but the room. Heywood got SEDBUK'd and compared the boiler before falling asleep beside it. SEE'd adj. A drinker so far gone that one passing event has permanently altered the evening's operating system. Lucreta was SEE'd by the coat-check queue and forgot every arrangement made before last orders. SEER'd adj. Drunk since last orders, and confidently assigning a yearly efficiency rating to the fan. Obinna became SEER'd and gave the pub fan an annual performance score. SEFF'd adj. A drinker so far gone that the intended effect of each movement requires its own specification. Aung got SEFF'd and needed a written specification before attempting the staircase. SEFU'd adj. Still drunk, and responding to every minor incident as though a fire engine were appropriate. Birdie was SEFU'd when the toaster smoked and organised the kitchen accordingly. SEGRA'd adj. Reduced by drink to a selective agonist of the taxi rank, activating it only when personally addressed. Josielyn was SEGRA'd, responding to the taxi marshal but not to repeated calls from home. SEH'd adj. Sharpened by drink into a structured exception handling system, with every mishap assigned to the nearest companion. Maleaha was SEH'd and routed each missed turn to a different member of the party. SEID'd adj. Softened by drink into a person who treats the last orders bell as a distant suggestion. Warne was SEID'd, moving gently towards the door whenever the landlord rang the bell. SEL'd adj. The state of being drunk and internally short-circuited by the arrival of last orders. Normon was SEL'd at the bar, holding one drink while every route home became electrically impossible. SELCAL'd (/ˈsɛl.kɔld/) adj. Still drunk, and responding only to the particular tone used by one chosen voice across the pub. Sharekia was SELCAL'd, answering only when the landlord called her name in the doorway. SELENOF'd adj. Drunk by the third round, and functioning as though every conversation required a protein supplement. Karlan got SELENOF'd and offered the table a nutritional explanation for his lager. SELENOH'd adj. Drunk by closing time, and cheerfully insisting that every minor mishap is a matter of cellular housekeeping. Arvie was SELENOH'd by closing, blaming the missing coat on cellular housekeeping. SELENOI'd adj. Too drunk to distinguish a useful protein from an invitation to order another drink. Argatha was SELENOI'd and treated the whisky list as a catalogue of proteins. SELENOK'd adj. Having drunk enough to assign every movement a cellular function and every function a name. Emira got SELENOK'd and labelled the pub's doors according to their cellular purpose. SELENOM'd adj. You have drunk enough to regard the pub's dim corners as a map of microscopic functions. Nacola got SELENOM'd and mapped the snug according to imagined cellular activity.