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subvillained adj. Emboldened by drink to become the evening's lesser villain, quietly confiscating the last round's crisps. Carnita turned subvillained and hid the bar snacks behind the coat stand. subvirioned adj. Slowed by drink to an incomplete particle, unable to assemble the instructions for getting home. subvirused adj. Drunk and smaller than a full social unit, yet still capable of infecting the queue with invitations. subvocabularied adj. Drunk to the point where the evening's remaining vocabulary consists chiefly of coats, taxis and another. subvocalizationed adj. Drunk enough to conduct the entire argument about last orders inwardly, without troubling the bar. Kaydnce was subvocalizationed, apparently debating the final round without moving her lips. subvocalizered adj. Drunk past the point of speaking aloud, but still delivering a private commentary on every coat. Lanae woke subvocalizered, silently reviewing every coat encountered at the pub. subvolcanited adj. Drunk beyond the point of eruption, settled beneath the evening like a hot stone in a coat. Darrill was subvolcanited and remained quietly immovable beneath the pile of departing coats. subvolumed adj. Drunk in a way that makes one small part of the evening occupy the whole: usually the last round. subvoted adj. Drunk, with the result that a subordinate opinion about going home is treated as binding. subvoxelled adj. Drunk to a degree that reduces the person to one small, brightly occupied part of the room. subwardened adj. Drunk to the extent of appointing oneself junior warden of the coats and the route home. subwatersheded adj. Drunk enough to collect every small overflow and direct it, by degrees, towards one inevitable low point from which nothing drains further. subwavelengthed adj. Drunk since last orders, and operating on a scale too small for ordinary conversation. subway seriesed adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the walk home as a cross-town playoff between rival directions. Namit became subway seriesed, alternating between two competing routes to the taxi rank. subway tiled adj. Still drunk, and arranged in clean white rectangles along the wall beside the coats. Mujahid remained subway tiled beside the cloakroom, upright and evenly spaced against the wall. subway-surfaced (/[ˌsʌb.wej ˈsɝː.fɨs]d/) adj. Too drunk to leave the tunnel of the evening, but still attempting the street-level journey home. Ryelyn was subway-surfaced and mistook the pavement outside for a continuation of the platform.