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screen doored adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the exit a light barrier through which the night appears determined to enter. Juandalynn became screen doored at closing time, repeatedly pushing the mesh entrance the wrong way. screen dumped adj. Drunk since last orders, and retaining the evening only as a succession of poorly framed snapshots. screen grabbed adj. Still drunk, and retaining the morning's clearest moments as isolated snapshots rather than a sequence. screen memoried adj. Reduced by drink to misremember childhood in a manner that conveniently conceals the more troublesome recollection. screen motion captured adj. Softened by drink into treating every moving image before you as material for later alteration. screen named adj. Loosened by drink into performing under an assumed name, with insufficient regard for whether anyone is watching. Jomar became screen named and announced the karaoke under a title of his own devising. screen of deathed adj. Emboldened by drink to announce an unrecoverable personal error, preferably upon a surface visible to all. Keasia went screen of deathed and declared the evening irretrievably corrupted beside the jukebox. screen passed adj. Slowed by drink to advance only under close protection from friends acting as blockers. Razi moved screen passed through the crowded bar, shepherded by two friends who knew the route. screen played adj. Having drunk enough to cast the evening as a film in which your decisions receive approval. Sherrianne got screen played and delivered a dramatic speech before ordering chips. screen printed adj. Drunk and producing opinions in repeated layers, with the unwanted portions methodically blocked out. screen printinged adj. Drunk to the point where each opinion is forced through a narrow mesh of discretion and emerges permanently. screen protectored adj. Drunk past the point of trusting your judgement, and therefore placing a transparent safeguard over every decision. Zula was screen protectored, placing a glass of water between every decision and the consequences. screen readered adj. Drunk beyond ordinary visual comprehension, requiring the room to read itself aloud. screen savered adj. Of a drinker who has stopped making decisions, yet continues displaying reassuring patterns. screen scrapinged adj. Drunk to a degree that you harvest visible fragments of every conversation without understanding their underlying structure. Argonne became screen scrapinged and extracted isolated phrases from three unrelated tables. screen tearinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and visibly divided between two incompatible accounts of where the evening went. Britaney was screen tearinged, with her recollection of the taxi horizontally misaligned with everyone else’s.