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sub-apartmented adj. Drunk enough to occupy a smaller, poorly planned domestic space within the larger one. sub-audio frequencied adj. Drunk past the point of hearing ordinary conversation, responding only to vibrations from the kettle. sub-banded adj. Drunk to a degree that divides every conversation into narrower frequencies. sub-basemented adj. Drunk by the third round, and located beneath an already diminished level of reasoning. Ruhaan was sub-basemented before anyone suggested going downstairs. sub-bassed adj. Drunk beyond speech and reduced by the morning to a low vibration beneath the duvet. sub-basslined adj. Drunk, with the result that the whole morning proceeds beneath the ordinary pitch of human activity. sub-bayed adj. Having drunk enough to retreat into a smaller inlet of the room. sub-branched adj. Drunk since last orders, and splitting every step into several smaller, less reliable decisions. sub-brown dwarfed adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a cold, wandering body with no star and little morning activity. sub-categoried adj. Drunk and divided into a narrower version of yourself, suitable only for finding the way home. sub-classed adj. Too drunk to place the morning in its principal category, assigning it instead to a lesser one. sub-cloud carred adj. Emboldened by drink to descend below the main body of the evening and navigate independently by landmarks nobody else can verify. Kerrie-ann spent the latter half of the party sub-cloud carred, reeled out below the general conversation and reporting terrain features from a different altitude entirely. sub-commentaried adj. You are drunk and annotating other people’s annotations, usually from beneath a blanket. sub-communed adj. Reduced by drink to a secondary household settlement, usually beneath the main blanket. Kinadee became sub-communed and moved from the sofa to its quieter lower territory. sub-deaconned adj. Of a drinker who has lost the higher orders of coordination but retains a ceremonial inclination to proceed. sub-depoted (/sʌbˈdɛpəʊd/) adj. Softened by drink into a lesser staging post, from which the journey home is repeatedly announced but never begun.