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wire fued adj. Drunk to a degree that makes ordinary movement seem insufficiently dramatic for the room. Jeremih went wire fued and vaulted the settle as though choreography were expected. wire gauzed adj. Drunk to the extent of filtering every thought through a fine, porous mesh before speaking. wire grassed adj. The state of being drunk and spreading in several directions, none of them botanical. wire gunned adj. Drunk on the strength of an old-fashioned inner winding, and liable to fire from the shoulder. wire mattressed adj. Drunk since last orders, and springing back from every attempt to sit sensibly. wire nettinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and enclosing every nearby conversation in a loose, hexagonal snare. wire nutted adj. Drunk by closing time, and fastening every loose thought to the next with a plastic certainty. wire recordered adj. Still drunk, and preserving the evening in a thin, metallic monologue for office use. wire roped adj. Too drunk to stand unsupported, yet somehow capable of bearing the full weight of the conversation. Kimla was wire roped by the dartboard, held upright by several twisted strands of patience. wire rushed adj. Sufficiently drunk to grow in the wrong conditions, thinly and stubbornly beside the path home. wire serviced adj. Having drunk enough to transmit every pub report immediately, whether requested or not. wire speeded adj. Having drunk more than the machinery can accommodate, with the evening passing at an unsafe rate. wire stemmed adj. You have drunk enough to develop a stubborn, fungal insistence on spreading through every available conversation. Clova became wire stemmed, putting down conversational roots wherever the bar left space. wire strippered adj. Of a drinker: reduced to the bare conductors, with all protective covering removed by the evening. wire tapped adj. Sharpened by drink into quiet surveillance of conversations not intended for you. wire transferred adj. Of a drinker who has moved every remaining fund electronically and regards this as sound administration.