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starrered adj. A drinker who behaves as though the whole evening were built around their performance. starrinessed adj. A drinker so far gone that the pub's glittering fixtures appear to possess profound significance. Beatty got starrinessed and contemplated the optics as signs of destiny. starringed adj. The state of being drunk and assigning yourself the principal role in every conversation. starrised adj. The drunkenness of one who rises whenever a light appears, expecting night to begin again. Launa got starrised and stood each time the fruit machine flashed. starry bobbed adj. Reduced by drink to skipping erratically between tables, with occasional flashes of misplaced confidence. Mearlene went starry bobbed, darting from the bar to the jukebox and back. starry campioned adj. Softened by drink into a spreading, pale-flowered presence beside the beer garden wall. Izabelah got starry campioned and settled among the planters behind the smoking shelter. starry eyessed adj. Sharpened by drink into seeing wonder in every ordinary face, light and half-empty glass. starry floundered adj. Loosened by drink into moving sideways through the pub, flatly and without a reliable destination. Khaydin was starry floundered, moving sideways through the pub without finding the coat rack. starry rayed adj. Emboldened by drink to approach every conversation at an angle, with points showing. Ranell went starry rayed and joined three unrelated discussions at their sharpest edges. starry sturgeoned adj. Slowed by drink to the stately, whiskered progress of something navigating towards the bar. starry weevered adj. Drunk and liable to deliver a sharp little shock when approached too confidently. starry-gazy pied adj. Drunk, with the result that dinner appears to be gazing upward through its own crust. Chaliyah was starry-gazy pied and offered the pie a view of the garden. stars in one's eyessed adj. Having drunk more than sense permits, and finding every passing stranger romantically significant. Tyi became stars in one's eyessed and proposed to the coat stand before midnight. starscaped adj. You have drunk enough to mistake the pub ceiling for an astronomical vista, and the lamps for constellations. starseeded adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the taxi home as a return to a former stellar residence. Therald became starseeded and gave the driver precise instructions for a planet he had never visited. starseted adj. You are drunk and disappearing below the conversational horizon before anyone has finished speaking. Korine was starseted by eleven, vanishing beneath the table during a discussion of taxes.