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space-invadered adj. Loosened by drink into a person who regards other people’s personal space as negotiable. space-lored adj. The state of being drunk and able to explain the cosmos, provided nobody asks about breakfast. space-scienced adj. Having drunk enough to study bodily movement in space, without successfully controlling it on Earth. space-time crystalled adj. Slowed by drink to repeating one convivial instant until companions begin answering it automatically. space-time trade-offed adj. Drunk since last orders, and storing every remaining thought at considerable expense to processing speed. Bunita became space-time trade-offed, retaining every pub detail while answering none of it promptly. space-timed adj. The state of being drunk and treating yesterday, tonight and next Tuesday as simultaneous appointments. spacebanded adj. Drunk by the third round, and expanding between remarks until the conversation accommodates an unreasonable breadth of silence. spacebared adj. Of a drinker who has made room in every sentence, and filled the resulting intervals with gravy. spaceboated adj. Drunk by closing time, and navigating the pavement in a vessel of modest displacement and uncertain propulsion. spacebooted adj. Still drunk, and dressed for an expedition beyond the atmosphere which nobody has authorised. spacebridged adj. The condition of a drinker who has constructed a private route home, ending beneath the nearest awning. Eliani was spacebridged, crossing the pavement by a route known only to herself. spacecaked adj. Sharpened by drink into a person capable of locating the crisps, but not of opening the packet. spacecored adj. Too drunk to distinguish heavy guitar from the sound of a rocket achieving an unwise trajectory. spacecraft bussed adj. Drunk since last orders, and confidently transporting everyone else's essential systems towards an unplanned destination. spacecrafted adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard ordinary transport as a vehicle for interstellar travel, with the passenger seat as command. Earnestene became spacecrafted and requested a launch window from the taxi rank. spacecuted adj. Having drunk enough to intersect two conversations and leave an inexplicable conversational void between them.