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space weaponned adj. Having drunk more than enough to make the journey home a trajectory with an uncertain target. space weathered adj. You have drunk enough to attribute missed connections, damp coats and poor navigation to solar activity. space worked adj. You are drunk and handling imaginary obstacles between the bar and the actual exit. space writered adj. Of a drinker: paid by the column inch, and therefore extending the walk home to fill the available space. space-cadet keyboarded adj. Describing a drinker who requires several simultaneous actions to open a door, find keys and leave. Elizabethann was space-cadet keyboarded, using both hands and a shoulder to operate the taxi door. space-filling curved adj. A drinker who takes a route containing the entire neighbourhood before reaching the front door. space-filling modelled adj. The state of being drunk and assembled for departure as a complete three-dimensional arrangement of coats, bags and limbs. space-invadered adj. Loosened by drink into a person who regards other people’s personal space as negotiable. space-lored adj. The state of being drunk and able to explain the cosmos, provided nobody asks about breakfast. space-scienced adj. Having drunk enough to study bodily movement in space, without successfully controlling it on Earth. space-time crystalled adj. Slowed by drink to repeating one convivial instant until companions begin answering it automatically. space-time trade-offed adj. Drunk since last orders, and storing every remaining thought at considerable expense to processing speed. Bunita became space-time trade-offed, retaining every pub detail while answering none of it promptly. space-timed adj. The state of being drunk and treating yesterday, tonight and next Tuesday as simultaneous appointments. spacebanded adj. Drunk by the third round, and expanding between remarks until the conversation accommodates an unreasonable breadth of silence. spacebared adj. Of a drinker who has made room in every sentence, and filled the resulting intervals with gravy. spaceboated adj. Drunk by closing time, and navigating the pavement in a vessel of modest displacement and uncertain propulsion.