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time-sucked adj. Drunk, with the result that every intended minute is quietly requisitioned by conversation. time-switched adj. Drunk since last orders, and now functioning according to a schedule known only to the kitchen clock. time-tabled adj. Drunk on the strength of a schedule, and now awaiting the next event with ceremonial patience. Aroura sat time-tabled beside the coats, confident that her taxi was due shortly. time-takered adj. Drunk by closing time, and consuming duration with the quiet efficiency of an unusually persistent task. time-tapered adj. Still drunk, and measuring the evening with a floating bowl, as though brass and water could administer sobriety. time-thrusted adj. You have drunk enough to mistake another person's breath for the appointed moment of a fencing attack. time-to-digital convertered adj. Sufficiently drunk to recognise every interruption and provide its alleged time of occurrence, usually after the fact. time-to-marketed adj. Softened by drink into a product whose launch has been announced repeatedly but remains unavailable. time-tracked adj. Drunk since last orders, and keeping everyone to the minute, including those who had gone home. time-tracking softwared adj. Having drunk enough to record the duration spent on every task, including those abandoned before commencement. time-trackinged adj. Still drunk, and demanding written evidence of how long each companion had tolerated the conversation. time-travelered adj. Of a drinker who has travelled beyond the present, with memories arriving in the wrong chronological order. time-travelinged adj. Having drunk more than the evening can reasonably account for, and arriving intermittently in yesterday, tomorrow, and the present. Charlay time-travelinged between yesterday, tomorrow and the present before reaching the stairs. time-travelled adj. You have drunk enough to move between earlier arguments and later apologies without noticing the interval. Gustas became time-travelled and apologised for an argument nobody else had reached yet. time-travellered adj. Describing a drinker who moves through previous conversations as though revising a defective historical record. Kyeson was time-travellered and returned to each earlier conversation with a fresh opening statement. time-travellinged adj. You have drunk enough to revisit earlier conversations and pre-empt tomorrow's apologies.