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tile sawed adj. Loosened by drink into precise, noisy divisions of the queue for the cloakroom. tile trackinged adj. Emboldened by drink to cross off each round, coat, and departing companion with bureaucratic confidence. tile-matching gamed adj. Too drunk to distinguish people from pieces, and arranging the room into groups that look pleasing from a distance. Kaybrie became tile-matching gamed and seated every person wearing blue beside another. tileabilitied adj. Drunk and unable to arrange yourself into a continuous surface, particularly in a crowded taxi. tileboarded adj. Drunk enough to simulate composure with a convincing but superficial arrangement of borrowed confidence. tiled (/taɪld/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a regular, flat obstruction between the bar and the door. tilefished adj. Drunk past the point of swimming straight, yet still intent on feeding at the nearest late-night counter. Fawzia was tilefished by closing time and pursued chips as though they were moving through water. tilemakered adj. Drunk beyond arranging every loose object into a permanent contribution to the hallway. tilemakinged adj. Drunk in a way that turns the journey home into the manufacture of small, unnecessary surfaces. Merola went tilemakinged and spent twenty minutes arranging receipts across the taxi seat. tilemapped adj. Drunk, with the result that every route home appears as a fixed grid of equally plausible squares. Chaudry was tilemapped outside the pub, selecting the taxi rank by a system nobody understood. tilemappinged adj. Drunk to a degree that turns navigation into the repeated use of an imaginary street grid. Estele became tilemappinged after last orders and planned the walk home one rectangle at a time. tilered adj. Drunk to the extent of setting every coat, glass, and member of the party in place. Sheka was tilered by closing time, assigning each coat a position before leaving for the taxi. tileried adj. Drunk since last orders, and steadily converting the route home into a place of manufacture. Laren was tileried by the time the taxi arrived, producing arrangements from every object in reach. tileseted adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying a complete collection of interchangeable expressions for leaving. tilestoned adj. Drunk by closing time, and geologically settled beside the nearest reliable wall. tiletamined (/tɪˈlɛtəmɪnd/) adj. Still drunk, and dissociated from the ordinary relationship between the pub, the coats, and the way home.