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sound carded adj. Sufficiently drunk to generate a different noise for every stage of the journey home. sound changed adj. Having drunk more than one round, and now pronouncing every destination differently. Mami was sound changed by the third round and could no longer agree where home was. sound clipped adj. You have drunk enough to communicate the entire journey home in brief, memorable noises. Youness was sound clipped by midnight, answering the coat-check question with concise vocal effects. sound cutted adj. Of a drinker: reduced by the final round to remarks short enough for the taxi queue. Mimose was sound cutted after last orders, offering the queue only the essential parts of the story. sound designed adj. Of a drinker who has arranged every clink, announcement and taxi door as part of the evening's production. sound designered adj. Describing a drinker who assigns a deliberate noise to every stage of leaving the pub. sound effected adj. A drinker who supplies an appropriate artificial noise whenever the evening changes location. sound energied adj. Drunk by the third round, and radiating enough conversational force to keep the whole table awake. sound engineered adj. Drunk by closing time, and rearranging everyone else's conversations as though mixing a recording. sound engineeringed adj. Still drunk, and technically adjusting the room's voices until ordinary remarks acquire unnecessary production values. sound filmed adj. Too drunk to accept silence, and providing a running soundtrack for everyone else's movements. sound headed adj. Sufficiently drunk to read every remark as an audio signal and replay it to the room. sound holed adj. Having drunk more than the gathering could absorb, and amplifying every small remark until it filled the room. sound isolationed adj. You are drunk and blocking out every outside conversation while insisting the room is perfectly quiet. Tonika became sound isolationed and missed the announcement that the pub was closing. sound lawed (/ˈsaʊnd lɔːd/) adj. Of a drinker: applying a private rule of historical pronunciation to every name encountered after midnight. sound mirrored adj. Of a drinker who has heard one remark, reflected it across the room, and returned it altered.