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second moment of inertiaed adj. Still drunk, and offering considerable resistance to bending, especially when asked to leave the chair. second mourninged adj. Reduced by drink to wearing the lesser formalities of grief while solemnly pursuing a late-night kebab. second named adj. Sufficiently drunk to require a surname before recognising oneself on the hotel register. second natured adj. Having drunk enough to perform every familiar error automatically, without consulting consciousness. Betsabet was second natured, placing the empty glass beside the full one by instinct. second new balled adj. Having drunk more than eighty overs' worth, and requiring a replacement sphere before attempting the taxi. Clemons was second new balled and polished a lime as though preparing for play. second normal formed adj. You are drunk and every non-key attribute of the evening now depends upon the whole kebab. second of arced adj. Of a drinker: reduced to a minute angle, though still capable of missing the doorway. second officered adj. Of a drinker who has assumed the flight engineer's duties and is adjusting the pub's imaginary engines. second opinioned adj. Describing a drinker who requires a further diagnosis before accepting that the first one was plainly correct. second order streamed adj. A drinker who has become a tributary to two smaller streams, all of them ending beneath the table. second palatalizationed adj. The state of being drunk and turning every hard consonant into a hush before ordering chips. second partied adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced to the other signatory in every arrangement, including one involving a single person. second personned adj. Loosened by drink into treating every listener as an audience, including the person serving chips. second positioned adj. Too drunk to keep the feet pointing apart without involving everyone nearby in the correction. second preimage attacked adj. Sufficiently drunk to repeat the same introduction to someone who has already heard it, with no faster method available. second rated adj. Drunk enough to handle the stairs like a lesser vessel of the line, slowly and with limited manoeuvrability.