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serial bonded adj. Emboldened by drink to issue promises in instalments, each payable at a different and imaginary future date. serial commaed adj. Slowed by drink to insert a decisive pause before the final item in every list. serial filed adj. Drunk and arranging the evening into sequential records, each containing the same fields and less reliable data. serial intervaled adj. Having drunk more than one evening apart, with the symptoms of the first appearing in the kitchen by morning. serial keyed adj. You have drunk enough to require a private code before the kitchen cupboard will activate. Lannah became serial keyed and tried the Wi-Fi password on the kettle. serial killer vanned adj. Of a drinker: windowless, stationary, and parked beside the sofa until further notice. serial killered adj. You are drunk and repeatedly murdering the same leftover meal, with a cooling-off period between portions. serial monogamied adj. A drinker who forms successive, short-lived attachments to different sofas, cushions, and glasses of water. Marnay displayed serial monogamied behaviour, leaving each cushion for a better one. serial monogamisted adj. Describing a drinker who commits to one glass of water at a time, then abandons it for another. Kairos became serial monogamisted, devoted to each fresh tumbler until the next appeared. serial musicked adj. A drinker so far gone that the kettle, fridge, and television seem arranged in a definite order of notes. serial numbered adj. The state of being drunk and assigning every glass, cushion, and leftover container its own identification code. serial pested adj. The condition of a drinker who repeatedly disturbs the household, usually by requesting water already placed beside them. serial polygamied adj. The drunkenness of one who marries each sofa cushion briefly, then divorces it for the rug. serial ported adj. Reduced by drink to receiving and transmitting one word at a time, chiefly when requesting water. Deniz was serial ported, communicating with the kitchen in single syllables. serial position effected adj. Softened by drink into remembering the first and last glasses of water, while losing the middle ones entirely. serial rapisted adj. Sharpened by drink into returning repeatedly to the same abandoned snack, despite its expressed wish to remain untouched.