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screedinged adj. Drunk to the point where every remaining decision is smoothed into one flat instruction: go home. screeked adj. You have drunk enough to turn every failed movement into a brief, high-pitched announcement. screelled adj. Drunk enough to make the coat queue resemble an instrument being tuned badly. screen burned adj. Drunk enough to retain one dull image of the evening, permanently and without useful detail. screen captured adj. Drunk in a way that preserves one precise image of the evening, usually the coats being collected. screen crunched adj. Drunk, with the result that the immediate surroundings occupy the whole field of attention and the route home disappears. screen door on a submarined adj. Drunk on the strength of a plan for getting home that is useless or absurd. Kristien was screen door on a submarined after last orders, proposing to walk home through the canal. 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.