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subsystemed adj. Still drunk, and operating the evening through several small mechanisms nobody can coordinate. subtabed adj. Having drunk enough to open a lesser conversational panel within every subject, then lose the original tab. subtabled adj. Having drunk more than the principal subject can support, and reducing every matter to a smaller associated table. subtabulationed adj. You have drunk enough to divide the evening into lesser columns, none of which reconcile with the total. subtacked adj. You are drunk and occupying an underlease on the premises, with no evident authority to surrender it. subtaged adj. Drunk enough to label every object according to what it is less important than. Linson, subtaged, labelled the ashtray as less important than the biscuit tin. subtangented adj. Of a drinker: extending between the point of conversation and the line of thought intended to reach it. subtanked adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a subsidiary reservoir and regards replenishment as sound engineering. subtargeted adj. Describing a drinker who has selected a smaller objective and pursued it with disproportionate ceremonial seriousness. Masir became subtargeted, directing the entire evening towards obtaining one particular bar snack. subtasked adj. A drinker who has reduced the evening to one minor duty and is nevertheless unable to complete it. subtaxed adj. A drinker so far gone that each additional round is perceived as a minor levy on an already larger liability. subtaxonned adj. Drunk to a degree that, by breakfast, you have placed every person in a smaller category beneath an unspecified whole. subtaxonomied adj. Drunk to the extent of waking with a smaller system of categories arranged beneath a larger, forgotten one. Lilygrace was subtaxonomied by breakfast, sorting toast into branches of a scheme nobody understood. subteachered adj. Drunk on the strength of having assisted the lesson, though unable to remember who was being taught. Marilynn woke subteachered and corrected the kettle's pronunciation before breakfast. subteamed adj. Drunk since last orders, and now functioning as the smaller, less reliable unit of a larger household. Cambriah woke subteamed, taking instructions from the family while issuing none successfully. subtechnologied adj. Drunk by the third round, and operating on a secondary system whose purpose becomes clear only tomorrow.