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text booked adj. Of a drinker: treating the morning as a formal course in consequences, with every symptom requiring a chapter. text boxed adj. Drunk, with the result that every incidental remark is solemnly set apart for separate reading. text door neighboured adj. Drunk to the extent of addressing the stranger one digit from your number as a long-lost acquaintance. text editored adj. Drunk on the strength of revising each sentence immediately, with visible damage and no lasting improvement. text filed adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced to plain, readable statements with all formatting abandoned. Reesie became text filed and announced the family dispute in unadorned sentences. text handed adj. Still drunk, and writing in the large ceremonious hand reserved for a book's principal matter. text hooked adj. Too drunk to leave a message alone, and compelled to hang every thought upon another. text hookered adj. Sufficiently drunk to read other people's messages and replace their meaning with your own translation. Cambel became text hookered and translated the landlord's reminder into an invitation. text linguisticsed adj. Having drunk more than the occasion warranted, and treating every conversation as a communication system for analysis. text linked adj. You have drunk enough to regard every written phrase as a route to another page and follow it. text messaged adj. You are drunk and communicating chiefly in brief electronic notices of diminishing relevance. Shaunell got text messaged and sent the same concise apology to the entire address book. text messaginged adj. Of a drinker: sending and receiving written messages with the persistence of a minor telecommunications service. text necked adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a downward gaze, a bent posture, and no reliable account of either. text paintinged adj. Describing a drinker who composes the evening as programmatic music, assigning every noise an illustrative purpose. text retrievaled adj. A drinker who searches the conversation for an earlier document, quotation, or point that plainly was never there. Yosvani grew text retrievaled and searched the table for a memorandum on crisps. text simplificationed adj. A drinker so far gone that every complicated utterance is processed into shorter, less accurate language.