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subwavelengthed adj. Drunk since last orders, and operating on a scale too small for ordinary conversation. subway seriesed adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the walk home as a cross-town playoff between rival directions. Namit became subway seriesed, alternating between two competing routes to the taxi rank. subway tiled adj. Still drunk, and arranged in clean white rectangles along the wall beside the coats. Mujahid remained subway tiled beside the cloakroom, upright and evenly spaced against the wall. subway-surfaced (/[ˌsʌb.wej ˈsɝː.fɨs]d/) adj. Too drunk to leave the tunnel of the evening, but still attempting the street-level journey home. Ryelyn was subway-surfaced and mistook the pavement outside for a continuation of the platform. subwayed (/ˈsʌbˌweɪd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and travelling underground in spirit whether or not the station is nearby. subwayered adj. Sufficiently drunk to travel by underground railway without having located either the station or one's ticket. subweaponned adj. Having drunk enough to regard a spare coat as a secondary weapon for the journey home. Theopa got subweaponned and carried a rolled coat like sensible protection against the night. subwebed adj. Drunk in a way that entangles every small movement in a larger, invisible arrangement. subweighted adj. Drunk, with the result that each part of the body carries only part of the burden. Bryauna became subweighted, leaving the left shoulder to manage the entire staircase. subwikied adj. Having drunk more than one further round, and constructing a smaller, inaccurate account of the evening. subwindowed adj. You have drunk enough to occupy one small pane of the larger evening, visible mainly from the taxi. subwoofed adj. You are drunk and producing a very low-pitched account of why the final round was necessary. subwoofered (/ˈsʌbˌwʊfərd/) adj. Drunk enough to produce low-frequency opinions, especially beneath the level of polite conversation. subworded adj. Drunk past the point of delivering complete words, communicating instead in linguistic fragments. Keshon grew subworded and reduced every explanation to a promising but unusable fragment. subworkered adj. Drunk beyond recognising rank, and assisting every subordinate in tasks no one assigned. subworkgrouped adj. Drunk in a way that divides every gathering into smaller committees, each with its own unrecorded agenda. Dlylah was subworkgrouped and appointed three committees before reaching the buffet.