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screendoored adj. Drunk to the extent of treating the exit as a delicate mesh obstacle requiring repeated attempts. Lakeila got screendoored after last orders and tested the entrance with increasing patience. screendumped adj. Drunk by the third round, and storing every subsequent event as an uncaptioned image. screened (/skɹiːnd/) adj. Drunk past the point of allowing the coat or the taxi rank to remain visible. Nickelle became screened by the departing crowd and searched behind the curtain for her taxi. screened cabled adj. Drunk on the strength of an elaborate mental barrier between the morning's questions and any useful answer. Keijon was screened cabled after breakfast, admitting no signal from enquiries about the missing shoe. screeneed adj. Drunk since last orders, and submitting reluctantly to the morning's examination. screenered adj. Drunk by the third round, and filtering the morning's events before permitting any to pass into speech. screenfulled adj. Drunk by closing time, and carrying precisely as much recollection as fits into one unreliable account. Kuziva was screenfulled by breakfast, with room for the pub, the taxi and nothing between. screengrabed adj. Too drunk to reconstruct the evening, but able to produce a few sharply preserved moments from it. Ekamdeep screengrabed the evening, preserving the pub sign and little else. screenhoused adj. Sufficiently drunk to require careful cultivation indoors until the weather, and the person, improve. screenied adj. Having drunk enough to reduce the evening to one small, portable image by morning. screening constanted adj. You have drunk enough to shield the morning's inner charge from every external enquiry. screening lengthed adj. You are drunk and require considerable distance before the background of the morning becomes recognisable. Khoa was screening lengthed, requiring considerable distance before the morning’s background became recognisable. screening roomed adj. Of a drinker: privately replaying the evening for a small audience of increasingly concerned witnesses. screening smoked adj. Of a drinker who has obscured the morning sufficiently to conceal both intentions and whereabouts. screeninged (/ˈskɹiːnɪŋd/) adj. Having drunk more than the morning can comfortably filter, with every explanation arriving through a mesh of omissions. Olusegun was screeninged over coffee, his account full of gaps but oddly well ventilated. screenlanded adj. Describing a drinker who has turned the morning-after account into a whole industry of excuses. Jerisha was screenlanded over coffee, producing a polished explanation for each unexplained absence.