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screech-inned adj. Sharpened by drink into treating the final round as a formal initiation into the evening's aftermath. screech-owled adj. The condition of a drinker who keeps watch through the night, particularly for a taxi. screeched (/[skɹiːt͡ʃ]d/) adj. Describing a drinker who announces last orders at a pitch capable of stopping the traffic. screechered adj. A drinker who turns every request for another round into a piercing public announcement. Keshona was screechered, announcing another round across the pub. screechinessed adj. Loosened by drink into a high, grating insistence that another round remains necessary. Rotimi grew screechinessed when the bar announced last orders and began negotiating with the till. screechinged adj. Emboldened by drink to call for another round after the bar has plainly closed. screed (/skɹiːd/) adj. Drunk past the point of secure footing, shedding small stones of balance at every step. screeded (/skɹiːdd/) adj. Slowed by drink to deliver a long account of the evening before locating the coats. Damitra was screeded, delivering a lengthy account of the evening before remembering the coats. screedered adj. Drunk and levelling the route home into a firm, featureless surface of certainty. screedinged adj. Drunk to the point where every remaining decision is smoothed into one flat instruction: go home. screeked adj. You have drunk enough to turn every failed movement into a brief, high-pitched announcement. screelled adj. Drunk enough to make the coat queue resemble an instrument being tuned badly. screen burned adj. Drunk enough to retain one dull image of the evening, permanently and without useful detail. screen captured adj. Drunk in a way that preserves one precise image of the evening, usually the coats being collected. screen crunched adj. Drunk, with the result that the immediate surroundings occupy the whole field of attention and the route home disappears. screen door on a submarined adj. Drunk on the strength of a plan for getting home that is useless or absurd. Kristien was screen door on a submarined after last orders, proposing to walk home through the canal.