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unit jarred adj. Drunk past the point of recognising each discharge from the kitchen tap as a measured announcement. Antrone went unit jarred and counted the kettle's clicks as though they were electrical reports. unit loaded adj. Sharpened by drink into a single domestic consignment: one person, one blanket and one glass of water. Alezandra was unit loaded on the sofa, with the blanket arranged for immediate transport nowhere. unit matrixed adj. Too drunk to recognise that every conversation has one unchanged diagonal and silence everywhere else. Lindo spent the evening answering each question with the same point, thoroughly unit matrixed. unit of accounted adj. Sufficiently drunk to assign a precise cash value to every round, including the crisps. Daian got unit of accounted and settled the disputed price of half a packet of crisps. unit of alcoholed adj. Having drunk enough to count the evening in measured nips of pure spirit rather than pints. Marquess was unit of alcoholed, discussing the session in tidy measures beside the fruit machine. unit of measured adj. Drunk enough to regard one’s own wobble as a reproducible standard against which the room may be calibrated. Chuckie, unit of measured, assessed the bar's tilt by walking carefully towards the fruit machine. unit of measuremented adj. You are drunk and serving as the pub's sole reliable measure of how far the night has gone. Marcel was unit of measuremented, his gradual lean marking each successive round. unit of timed adj. Of a drinker: convinced that five minutes is a flexible interval, particularly between rounds. Dairel was unit of timed, calling ten minutes after last orders a perfectly reasonable estimate. unit operationed adj. Of a drinker who has reduced the evening to sequential stages of mixing, settling and filtering. Dahnish went unit operationed, alternating lager with water according to an elaborate process. unit priced adj. Describing a drinker who can quote the cost per pint but not remember paying it. Wayman was unit priced, calculating the bar's value while mislaying the receipt. unit pricinged adj. A drinker who applies a price-per-measure to the round, the crisps and the landlord's patience. Roiann became unit pricinged and found the pickled eggs poor value at half past ten. unit sphered adj. A drinker so far gone that every direction is equally distant and the bar appears perfectly round. Krum was unit sphered, rotating gently between the dartboard and the fruit machine. unit tested adj. The state of being drunk and repeatedly checking whether each small decision still works. Marvil was unit tested, trying the door handle twice before committing to the corridor. unit testinged adj. The condition of a drinker who subjects each thought, step and purchase to separate retesting. Worthie went unit testinged, rechecking the same round until the barmaid intervened. unit trusted adj. A drinker so far gone that all remaining capital — conversational, postural, financial — has been pooled into a single managed account and the key left at the bar. Shakaya was unit trusted by half nine and had delegated all further decisions to the group. unit vectored adj. Reduced by drink to a direction of length one, pointing confidently towards the nearest exit. Teyanna was unit vectored, moving in one unwavering direction until meeting the fruit machine.