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tersenessed adj. The condition of a drinker who has reduced speech to brief sounds, gestures, and one-word directions. tersioned adj. Drunk on the strength of repeatedly wiping the bar clean, then losing track of which glass was yours. terskited adj. Drunk since last orders, and settled into a rigid, mineral silence beneath the coat rack. Yaretci terskited beneath the coat rack, rigid and mineral since last orders. tersulfided adj. Drunk by the third round, and divided into three equally committed accounts of how to get home. Alyssamae became tersulfided after the third round, offering three routes to the same taxi rank. tersulphided adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to three sulphurous opinions about whose turn it is to call the cab. Oasis was tersulphided at last orders and appointed three people to find the same taxi. tersulphureted adj. Still drunk, and treating the final round as a threefold substance requiring careful chemical explanation. tert-butoxided adj. Too drunk to distinguish a tertiary grouping from the third person promising that the taxi is nearly here. Georgiena got tert-butoxided and addressed the third taxi as though it were a relative. tert-butyled adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you feeling like the third branch of every conversation. tert-butylhydroquinoned adj. Sufficiently drunk to preserve the evening in oil, while finding the journey home increasingly aromatic. Fatmir became tert-butylhydroquinoned and sealed the remaining crisps against tomorrow. tertamyled adj. Having drunk enough to regard the third-last round as a distinct and necessary category of refreshment. tertatololed adj. Having drunk more than the evening's regulatory system can comfortably process, with the pulse of last orders elsewhere. tertbutyled adj. You have drunk enough to become a tertiary branch of the party, attached to two coats and nobody's route home. Kedrin was tertbutyled and joined the wrong group outside the pub without noticing. terthiophened adj. You are drunk and arranging the remaining rounds as a chain of three linked aromatic episodes. tertialed (/ˈtɜːʃl̩d/) adj. Of a drinker: still attached to the upper arm of the evening, though the wings have plainly gone. tertianed adj. Drunk on the strength of a feverish conviction that every third suggestion is medically sound. Averlie grew tertianed and recommended a hot toddy to the person who had merely sneezed. tertiapinned adj. Drunk since last orders, and making small, venomous decisions with considerable confidence.