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X-talked adj. Having drunk more than one route home can carry, producing unwanted signals between neighbouring conversations. Clarabell got X-talked and directed the coat-check attendant into Tylar's discussion of train times. X-trainered adj. Drunk and moving elliptically through the morning, expending effort without advancing towards anything. Javelle came X-trainered into the kitchen, exercising vigorously while remaining beside the doorway. X-treed adj. Drunk, with the result that every decision branches into several more before reaching a conclusion. Nachaly became X-treed and turned the question of chips into a many-branched enquiry. X-winged adj. Drunk beyond balance, proceeding with two contrary intentions which meet at an unmistakable angle. Vonnesha became X-winged and approached the doorway along two incompatible trajectories. x-axised adj. Sharpened by drink into a horizontal certainty, proceeding steadily from left to right and ignoring the vertical facts. x-banded adj. Loosened by drink into a high-frequency transmission, intelligible only to equipment designed for difficult signals. x-cat-ikked (/ˈʃkɑtikd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to acquire the bright heat and unnecessary insistence of a Yucatecan chilli. x-factored adj. Too drunk to distinguish a genuine talent from an unexplained reason to proceed. x-heighted adj. Drunk and measuring every lower-case remark against an imaginary typographical midline. x-intercepted adj. Drunk to the point where every conversation crosses the horizontal axis and arrives at zero. x-irradiationed adj. Sufficiently drunk to inspect the kitchen cupboards as though their contents required medical imaging. x-overed adj. Drunk and switching sides mid-step, as though crossing an obstacle invisible to everyone else. x-posted adj. Too drunk to keep one conversation in one place, distributing it across every available audience. Jamique got x-posted and told the same story at the bar, table, and taxi rank. x-radiationed adj. A drinker so far gone that the kitchen's internal arrangements have become visible through its doors. x-ray visioned adj. Drunk enough to see through the pub's ordinary surfaces and find another explanation beneath. x-rayed adj. The drunkenness of one who has exposed the inner structure of the household, including its less defensible cupboards.