service areaed
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service areaed adj. Softened by drink into a roadside halt, open late and offering refreshments of uncertain quality. service berried adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard small dark fruit as a suitable provision for the walk home.
service booked adj. Sharpened by drink into solemnly announcing each stage of the evening as though it had a printed order. Thatiana was service booked and declared the arrival of the chips a formal proceeding. service boxed adj. Loosened by drink into accommodating movement where a rigid connection was expected. Xamir was service boxed and flexed around every change of conversational direction. service capped adj. Emboldened by drink to address the room with modest official authority. service charged adj. Slowed by drink to adding a small, unexplained amount to every account of the evening. Jammie was service charged and included a discretionary fee in each retelling. service cleanered adj. Drunk and compressing every conversation into a portable reserve of air. service clubbed adj. Drunk to the point where every gathering has acquired charitable purpose and a membership list. Yupheng was service clubbed and collected subscriptions for the next round. service coursed adj. Drunk enough to require maintenance between successive appearances in public. service courted adj. Drunk past the point of placing every spoken contribution neatly within the intended boundary. service design packaged adj. Of a drinker: unable to specify where the stairs begin, or how they are to be negotiated. Iyunna got service design packaged and submitted the staircase to several departments. service dogged adj. Of a drinker who has begun following strangers for assistance with ordinary daily movements. service dropped adj. Describing a drinker who descends from the landing to the floor with the reliability of a loose cable. service economied adj. A drinker who provides no useful output but continues offering assistance, hospitality and unsolicited directions. Zaory grew service economied and managed the queue for the lavatory from the stairs. service feed adj. The state of being drunk and presenting every stumble as a chargeable accommodation.
service gamed adj. The condition of a drinker who serves first, then discovers that receiving instructions is impossible. Bayyinah became service gamed and served herself down the stairs one rail at a time.