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team-mated adj. The drunkenness of one who has appointed the nearest person a comrade, without checking their consent. team-upped adj. Drunk to the point where every acquaintance is recruited as an ally against an entirely fictional adversary. Dalarie got team-upped and enlisted the cloakroom attendant for an imagined rescue mission. teamakered adj. Too drunk to make tea without appointing a committee, and involving everyone present in the stirring. teamakinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to turn tea preparation into a communal negotiation over water, leaves, milk and timing. teambuildered adj. Having drunk enough to treat a trust exercise as binding, and assign reluctant strangers to its teams. teambuildinged adj. You have drunk enough to regard every disagreement as an opportunity for colleagues to bond under supervision. teamed (/tiːmd/) adj. Of a drinker who has harnessed all available assistance, including the furniture, to reach the door. teameoed adj. You are drunk and driving an imaginary team through the assembled company, issuing directions to pedestrians. teamered adj. Drunk, with the result that every solitary decision has become a team matter. teamfulled adj. Of a drinker who has reached the amount constituting a team, and is now recruiting substitutes from nearby tables. teamied adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken every temporary companion for a lifelong teammate. teaminged adj. A drinker who converts ordinary assistance into teamwork, with bystanders assigned duties without consultation. teamkilled adj. A drinker so far gone that friendly help is received as betrayal and punished with a solemn accusation. teamkillered adj. The state of being drunk and repeatedly sabotaging the people who have undertaken to get you home. teamlessnessed adj. The condition of a drinker who has lost all allies, chiefly through assigning them impossible tasks. Lale was teamlessnessed by midnight, having dismissed every volunteer as insufficiently committed. teammated (/ˈtiːmˌmeɪtd/) adj. Reduced by drink to treating whoever is nearby as a fellow player in a private campaign.