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subsynchronous orbited adj. Drunk by closing time, and circulating nearer the emotional planet than the evening’s timetable permits. subsyndicated adj. Still drunk, and operating as a minor partnership within the larger organisation of the evening’s indiscretions. subsyndromed adj. Too drunk to present the whole disorder, but plainly exhibiting its secondary and more manageable classification. subsynoviumed adj. Sufficiently drunk to occupy the lowest available conversational layer, beneath even the usual cushioning. subsystemed adj. Still drunk, and operating the evening through several small mechanisms nobody can coordinate. subtabed adj. Having drunk enough to open a lesser conversational panel within every subject, then lose the original tab. subtabled adj. Having drunk more than the principal subject can support, and reducing every matter to a smaller associated table. subtabulationed adj. You have drunk enough to divide the evening into lesser columns, none of which reconcile with the total. subtacked adj. You are drunk and occupying an underlease on the premises, with no evident authority to surrender it. subtaged adj. Drunk enough to label every object according to what it is less important than. Linson, subtaged, labelled the ashtray as less important than the biscuit tin. subtangented adj. Of a drinker: extending between the point of conversation and the line of thought intended to reach it. subtanked adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a subsidiary reservoir and regards replenishment as sound engineering. subtargeted adj. Describing a drinker who has selected a smaller objective and pursued it with disproportionate ceremonial seriousness. Masir became subtargeted, directing the entire evening towards obtaining one particular bar snack. subtasked adj. A drinker who has reduced the evening to one minor duty and is nevertheless unable to complete it. subtaxed adj. A drinker so far gone that each additional round is perceived as a minor levy on an already larger liability. subtaxonned adj. Drunk to a degree that, by breakfast, you have placed every person in a smaller category beneath an unspecified whole.