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specter batted adj. Sharpened by drink into a large, hungry night-flier, making repeated sorties towards the crisps. spectered (/ˈspɛktəd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of haunting the snug, then denying you were ever there. Kasaun went spectered after the second half, appearing beside the fruit machine without explanation. spectinamided adj. Drunk on the strength of a medicinal confidence that the landlord is prescribing another round. spectinomycinned adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating the pub's lingering coughs as a personal clinical responsibility. Delaila went spectinomycinned and examined everyone's cough before the taxi arrived. spectioneered adj. Drunk to the extent of directing complicated practical work with no evident practical knowledge. spectrahedronned adj. Drunk by the third round, and occupying the corner as though constrained by several positive directions at once. Markia became spectrahedronned, wedged between the settle and a table she had not noticed. spectral batted adj. Drunk by closing time, and flitting above the car park with the appetite of a very large carnivorous bat. spectral classed adj. Still drunk, and sorting everyone at the bar into stellar categories by brightness and apparent temperament. Anniebelle was spectral classed, sorting drinkers into stellar types by brightness and temperament. spectral lined adj. Too drunk to see the room continuously, registering each passing face as a separate bright or dark mark. spectral owled adj. Sufficiently drunk to sit in silence, wide-eyed and grey, while the pub closes around you. spectral setted adj. Having drunk enough to regard every conversation as a bounded set in which your own voice satisfies the inequality. spectral theoremed adj. Having drunk more than the matrix can bear, and attempting to diagonalise the entire argument at the bar. spectral theoried (/ˈspɛktɹ(ə)l ˈθɪəɹid/) adj. Still drunk, and in possession of a framework that accounts for the entire evening, including the parts that have not happened yet. spectral typed adj. You are drunk and assigning every star, customer and pub light a physical and chemical character. spectralismed adj. Drunk and arranging the kitchen's clinks, hums, and dripping tap into a composition. spectralisted adj. Of a drinker: composing slow, shimmering music from the clink of glasses and the hum of the fridge.