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time-outed (/ˈtaɪm.aʊtd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating the walk home as a series of official breaks. time-paymented adj. Drunk by the third round, and willing to settle the evening according to minutes worked. time-pieced adj. Loosened by drink into separate, silent readings of the clock, each suggesting bed at once. time-pleasered adj. Slowed by drink to agree with the room's latest opinion, especially concerning who should wash up. time-point setted adj. Drunk by closing time, and arranging each footstep as the beginning of a separate note. Motez got time-point setted and crossed the pavement in a careful sequence of starts. time-pointed adj. The condition of a drinker who can identify precisely when the glass of water became essential. Damarian was time-pointed, naming 1.18 a.m. as the moment hydration became urgent. time-policied adj. Softened by drink into covering the sofa and its occupant for a specified spell of domestic weather. time-preference theory of interested adj. Still drunk, and exchanging the certainty of another present round for a dubious future journey. time-savered adj. Drunk on the strength of a shortcut that leaves the washing-up, the stairs, and the drinker equally unfinished. time-scaled adj. Drunk since last orders, and measuring the night by the diminishing contents of a water glass. time-series animationed adj. Drunk and turning each small pub event into a sequential moving picture for an unwilling audience. time-servered adj. Still drunk, and conforming to whichever domestic opinion currently offers the easiest route to the sofa. time-servinged adj. Too drunk to leave without agreeing with whoever currently controls the coats and the taxi queue. time-servingnessed adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat every household decision as an opportunity for quiet personal advantage. time-shared adj. Having drunk enough to regard the last available seat as jointly owned by everyone present. Cassandr became time-shared and negotiated the taxi seat according to an annual rota. time-sharered adj. You have drunk enough to divide the journey home into allotted periods for each companion.