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zero chilled adj. Drunk by closing time, and cold enough to make every companion responsible for finding an additional coat. Venba went zero chilled and borrowed Benuel's coat before anyone had located the taxi. zero cliented adj. Softened by drink into a terminal with little initiative and no local resources. Semhar sat quietly by the router, thoroughly zero cliented, awaiting further instruction. zero conditionaled adj. Sharpened by drink into a general truth, provided the present tense is maintained. Colton-lee became zero conditionaled and stated that if it rains, the pavement gets wet. zero copulaed adj. Loosened by drink into joining subject and predicate without the usual linking verb. Kurran went zero copulaed and announced, ‘the more the merrier’, without further grammar. zero coupon bonded adj. Slowed by drink to appreciate gradually, without receiving interest along the way. Cas became zero coupon bonded and approached the taxi as though maturity were years away. zero couponned adj. Emboldened by drink to claim a discount that does not exist. Hipolito went zero couponned and presented the empty wallet as promotional evidence. zero dark thirtied adj. Drunk and awake at an hour conventionally described only by its darkness. Adelmira was zero dark thirtied, making tea at an hour without a proper name. zero dayed adj. Drunk since last orders, and still waiting for someone to mitigate the vulnerability in your route home. Darce was zero dayed and revealed the unguarded shortcut past the taxi rank. zero deflectioned adj. Drunk to the point where every aim is exactly parallel, whether intended or not. Damiya went zero deflectioned and aligned the bar stool with the doorway. zero derivationed (/ˌzɪəɹəʊ ˈdɛɹɪˌveɪʃənd/) adj. Drunk enough to change a word’s part of speech without changing its form. Zuleika became zero derivationed and began to noun every verb in conversation. zero divisored adj. Drunk past the point of dividing anything sensibly, though something non-zero remains involved. Abdiwahab was zero divisored and reduced every bill to an argument about multiplication. zero endinged adj. Having drunk more than enough to leave every morning noun unfinished, retaining its stem and losing its conclusion. Akeriah was zero endinged, asking for the coff and pointing at the bathr without completing either word. zero fightered (/ˈzɪəɹəʊ faɪ.tə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk, with the result that a single pull-up remains beyond consideration. Zaydin was zero fightered and regarded the pub’s overhead rail with measured distrust. zero ged adj. Drunk past the point of gravity, so that standing becomes a group activity with no clear leader. Abbaas became zero ged and left the chair only after Yulanda assembled a support team. zero geed adj. Drunk beyond gravity and therefore liable to float towards anyone offering a lift home. Varonda went zero geed and rose from the bench whenever Pharell mentioned the taxi. zero graded adj. Sufficiently drunk to remove every vowel from the plan for getting home. Chloe-jean went zero graded and reduced the taxi instructions to consonants.