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zettametred adj. Drunk by closing time, and regarding the route home as twenty-one orders of magnitude longer than it was. Edberg was zettametred, having apparently crossed an astronomical distance between the pub and his front door. zettampered adj. Drunk beyond any sensible unit of current, yet still capable of locating the kettle by instinct. zettaparsecked adj. Still drunk, and separated from coherent recollection by a distance measured in an absurd number of parsecs. zettaseconded adj. Sharpened by drink into decisions made in intervals too brief to measure, then defended for twenty-one orders of magnitude. zettatonned adj. Loosened by drink into treating every minor disagreement as an explosion requiring sextillions of tons of TNT. zettelkastened adj. Of a drinker: each part of the morning has been filed separately, with no index to the whole. zettosided adj. Emboldened by drink to regard a medicinal steroid glycoside as sound authority for personal decisions. Macallen went zettosided and recommended the unfamiliar compound before checking its name. zetzed adj. Slowed by drink to announce a punch several seconds before attempting one. zeugitaed adj. Drunk and spending an estate's annual yield in one evening, with the confidence of a citizen of means. zeugitaied adj. Drunk to the point where every modest possession is presented as proof of Athenian civic importance. Jaken got zeugitaied and described his rented flat as an estate above the required value. zeuglodonned adj. Drunk enough to move through the room like an ancient whale, confidently mistaking furniture for open water. zeuglodonted adj. Drunk past the point of recognising that extinct whales are a poor model for navigating a modern pub. zeuglodontoided adj. Drunk beyond classification, yet still offering a confident account of which extinct whale best resembles you. zeugmaed (/ˈzjuːɡ.məd/) adj. Drunk in a way that applies one confident verb to two plans, only one of which can sensibly bear it. zeugmatogramed adj. Drunk, with the result that each decision appears as an image whose meaning depends on the wrong subject. zeugmatographied adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every private certainty into a scan, with the conclusions announced aloud.