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sub-bassed adj. Drunk beyond speech and reduced by the morning to a low vibration beneath the duvet. sub-basslined adj. Drunk, with the result that the whole morning proceeds beneath the ordinary pitch of human activity. sub-bayed adj. Having drunk enough to retreat into a smaller inlet of the room. sub-branched adj. Drunk since last orders, and splitting every step into several smaller, less reliable decisions. sub-brown dwarfed adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a cold, wandering body with no star and little morning activity. sub-categoried adj. Drunk and divided into a narrower version of yourself, suitable only for finding the way home. sub-classed adj. Too drunk to place the morning in its principal category, assigning it instead to a lesser one. sub-cloud carred adj. Emboldened by drink to descend below the main body of the evening and navigate independently by landmarks nobody else can verify. Kerrie-ann spent the latter half of the party sub-cloud carred, reeled out below the general conversation and reporting terrain features from a different altitude entirely. sub-commentaried adj. You are drunk and annotating other people’s annotations, usually from beneath a blanket. sub-communed adj. Reduced by drink to a secondary household settlement, usually beneath the main blanket. Kinadee became sub-communed and moved from the sofa to its quieter lower territory. sub-deaconned adj. Of a drinker who has lost the higher orders of coordination but retains a ceremonial inclination to proceed. sub-depoted (/sʌbˈdɛpəʊd/) adj. Softened by drink into a lesser staging post, from which the journey home is repeatedly announced but never begun. sub-deserted adj. Drunk to the point where a normally lively route home supports only sparse, persistent attempts at movement. sub-disciplined adj. Still drunk, and occupied with one narrow branch of a subject whose wider field has been abandoned. sub-districted adj. Drunk enough to divide the kitchen into smaller administrative areas and lose jurisdiction over the sink. sub-editored adj. Of a drinker who has reduced every conversation to corrections, headlines and one final unnecessary amendment.