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second-guessered adj. Drunk since last orders, and still revisiting choices that ceased to matter several rounds ago. second-halfed adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the last stretch as a separate match requiring fresh resolve. Regna was second-halfed, making a late push for the taxi rank. second-hand shopped adj. Emboldened by drink to browse through other people's possessions and call the arrangement economical. Daler was second-hand shopped at dawn, rearranging yesterday’s possessions and calling it economical. second-hand smoked adj. Drunk and absorbing the evening's fumes without having ordered them. Roshaad was second-hand smoked, coughing politely beside people who had chosen the cigarettes. second-hand speeched adj. Drunk enough to repeat a conversation overheard from somebody else's telephone. Fili got second-hand speeched and relayed a stranger's arrangements to the whole table. second-hand stored adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a shop for used goods from one merely containing goods. Cara-rose became second-hand stored and examined the pub's furniture for previous owners. second-hand vaped adj. Drunk beyond caring whose vapour is being breathed, provided the doorway remains accessible. Priyah was second-hand vaped after lingering beside the smoking area in search of her taxi. second-handednessed adj. Emboldened by drink to wear yesterday's evidence openly, without troubling to establish ownership. second-handered adj. Drunk in a way that makes other people's approval the only remaining measure of merit. Qunesha was second-handered, judging each round solely by the approval it received. second-harmonic generationed adj. Drunk, with the result that two identical lights appear to produce a third. second-impact syndromed adj. You have drunk enough to turn every minor collision into a renewed and disproportionate event. Boisey got second-impact syndromed when the bar stool met his knee for the second time. second-in-commanded adj. Drunk on the strength of being nearly in charge, which proved sufficient for the evening. second-language acquisitioned adj. Drunk enough to have assembled, from the ambient noise of the pub, a fluency in something that is not quite any known language. Shaye came second-language acquisitioned to the bar and ordered in a dialect nobody present could immediately verify. second-level domained adj. Reduced by drink to treating every conversation as subordinate to a superior point, marked by a full stop. second-mile serviced adj. Sharpened by drink into providing exceptional assistance, including directions nobody requested and escorting everyone upstairs. second-order logicked adj. Loosened by drink into quantifying over relationships between people, rather than merely identifying the people involved.