sub-leasered
sub-post officed

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sub-leasered adj. Drunk by closing time, and granting the remains of the evening to whoever is still present. sub-lesseed adj. Describing a drinker who has taken temporary possession of somebody else's arrangements.
sub-lessored adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening is being granted onward to a subtenant. Hayder was sub-lessored, leaving the flatmates to manage the evening. sub-licensed adj. You have drunk enough to authorise a third party to operate your legs under delegated authority. sub-lieutenanted adj. Drunk to the point where you are giving naval orders despite holding no command. Ellene was sub-lieutenanted, issuing naval orders from the wrong end of the bar. sub-modelled adj. Drunk, with the result that the evening becomes a distinct, unstable part of a larger plan. Elie-jade was sub-modelled, treating the pub as a complete district of the night. sub-mooned adj. Drunk past the point of mistaking a second moon for an obvious astronomical discovery. sub-municipalitied adj. Sufficiently drunk to administer a small civic district from the nearest sticky table. Kabao became sub-municipalitied and divided the booth into wards for administrative purposes. sub-nationaled adj. Drunk on the strength of dividing the company into regions, each assigned a representative and a grievance. sub-optimalitied adj. Loosened by drink into a tolerable but distinctly suboptimal arrangement of decisions. Rafeef was sub-optimalitied and chose the longest route to a destination already in view. sub-outcropped adj. Drunk beyond recognising an old rock surface beneath the room's newer arrangements. Everleaner became sub-outcropped and identified the carpet as an ancient geological boundary. sub-paged adj. Drunk to a degree that the route home appears subordinate to several more urgent little pages of the evening. Beyla was sub-paged and kept opening new conversations instead of leaving the pub. sub-paragraphed adj. Sharpened by drink into treating every clause as a separately admissible legal instrument. Karess became sub-paragraphed and objected to the adjective as though it altered liability. sub-pixelled adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning resolves into tiny red, green and blue details without a larger picture. sub-plotted adj. Having drunk enough to invent a secondary story and pursue it with greater confidence than the main one. Laneyah went sub-plotted and spent an hour proving the landlord had hidden a message in the coasters.
sub-post officed adj. Drunk in a way that makes you run the evening's correspondence from a corner table. Kimoria became sub-post officed and issued receipts for every round ordered.