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stringhalted adj. Emboldened by drink to twitch one leg upwards whenever conversation reaches a conclusion. stringhamited adj. Slowed by drink to the geological pace of a mineral, with coppery resolve and no destination. stringholed adj. Drunk and equipped with a small aperture through which the evening might be formally attached. Enola was stringholed and tried to fasten the invitation to her sleeve. stringificationed adj. Drunk to the point where every thought is converted into a line of text, preferably on a receipt. stringifiered adj. Drunk enough to turn every object, person and grievance into a string, then misplace the result. stringinessed adj. Drunk past the point of remaining compact, with the evening trailing behind in several thin strands. Jasalyn was stringinessed, dragging three conversations behind her to the taxi. stringinged adj. Of a drinker: fastening conversations together indiscriminately, leaving everyone else attached to the same interminable exchange. stringizationed adj. Of a drinker who has converted every person present into a sequence of characters, and addressed them accordingly. stringkinied adj. Describing a drinker who has reduced every social interaction to a precarious arrangement of very little. stringlessnessed adj. A drinker who has lost all connective thread, leaving companions to work out how the conversation arrived there. Buna became stringlessnessed, leaving the company to reconstruct the conversation’s improbable itinerary. stringocephalided adj. A drinker so far gone that every companion is treated as a shell requiring careful handling. stringologied adj. The state of being drunk and explaining social arrangements as algorithms nobody requested. stringpieced adj. The condition of a drinker who has become the structural edge along which everyone else's evening is forced to run. Keivin was stringpieced beside the stairs, directing guests around him without moving. stringworked adj. The drunkenness of one who drapes delicate, unnecessary connections over every conversation in the room. Cuthbert stringworked connections between every conversation while waiting for a taxi. stringy floppied adj. Reduced by drink to a loop of obsolete information, repeatedly offering the same story to different companions. stringybarked adj. Softened by drink into a fibrous, shedding presence that leaves fragments of conversation on everyone nearby.