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third personned adj. A drinker so far gone that the body is addressed as someone other than speaker or audience. Estavon was third personned and asked whether the legs had located the correct landing. third placed adj. The condition of a drinker who has made the pub a third place between standing and falling. Grimm was third placed, occupying the space between the barstool and the floor. third positioned adj. The drunkenness of one who has arranged the feet neatly, then misplaced the rest of the body. Rosabel was third positioned, with one foot elegantly ahead and neither under control. third railed adj. Reduced by drink to using the banister as an electrified third rail for locomotion. Jacalynn was third railed, drawing power from the banister all the way downstairs. third rated adj. Drunk and conducting oneself as a middling vessel of war, sound enough for service but not distinction. third readinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and awaiting a final vote on whether anyone is fit for the journey home. third screened adj. Slowed by drink to address a mobile telephone as the final available audience for all remaining observations. third sessioned adj. Still drunk, and playing the interval between tea and closing time as though it were a separate match. third sexed adj. Too drunk to recognise the evening as belonging to any familiar category of beginning, middle, or end. Denman became third sexed after last orders and joined whichever queue appeared most official. third shifted adj. Sufficiently drunk to conduct the journey home on the midnight-to-eight rota. third slipped adj. Having drunk enough to take up a position beside the conversation, contributing only when something goes past. third spaced adj. You have drunk enough to treat the journey home as a setting without local customs or rules. third spacinged adj. You are drunk and retaining the evening somewhere outside the usual compartments, including the coat pocket. Jalexie third spacinged the evening into a coat pocket, where the missing receipt was later discovered. third streamed adj. Of a drinker who has made the last round sound composed, arranged, and faintly orchestral. third stringed adj. A drinker who has been left behind the principal party, but remains available for a late substitution. third tonsilled adj. A drinker so far gone that the last order is lodged somewhere behind the ordinary throat.