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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. Athenarose was zettampered, radiating enough morning-after agitation to disturb the entire breakfast table. zettaparsecked adj. Still drunk, and separated from coherent recollection by a distance measured in an absurd number of parsecs. Carol-ann remained zettaparsecked from the facts, placing the final drink several galaxies from the truth. zettaseconded adj. Sharpened by drink into decisions made in intervals too brief to measure, then defended for twenty-one orders of magnitude. Odelie went zettaseconded and ordered another round before the first had arrived. zettatonned adj. Loosened by drink into treating every minor disagreement as an explosion requiring sextillions of tons of TNT. Ordis got zettatonned and declared the missing coaster an event of historic force. zettelkastened adj. Of a drinker: each part of the morning has been filed separately, with no index to the whole. Lucais was zettelkastened, locating the wallet in one note and the trousers in another. 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. Firaz was zetzed and gave Nyell ample warning of the entirely avoidable blow. zeugitaed adj. Drunk and spending an estate's annual yield in one evening, with the confidence of a citizen of means. Sunnye went zeugitaed and assured the table that the bill represented only a modest annual output. 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. Kaliee went zeuglodonned and made a slow passage between the chairs without altering course. zeuglodonted adj. Drunk past the point of recognising that extinct whales are a poor model for navigating a modern pub. Kelcee got zeuglodonted and attempted the doorway with the broad assurance of a fossilised cetacean. zeuglodontoided adj. Drunk beyond classification, yet still offering a confident account of which extinct whale best resembles you. Jesalee became zeuglodontoided and corrected the table on the taxonomy of creatures nobody had mentioned. zeugmaed (/ˈzjuːɡ.məd/) adj. Drunk in a way that applies one confident verb to two plans, only one of which can sensibly bear it. Maksymilian went zeugmaed and said he would both settle the bill and swim home. zeugmatogramed adj. Drunk, with the result that each decision appears as an image whose meaning depends on the wrong subject. Jernya got zeugmatogramed and showed Kohan a vivid mental picture of their entirely impractical route. zeugmatographied adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every private certainty into a scan, with the conclusions announced aloud. Jerrie went zeugmatographied and diagnosed the room's social structure without examining any evidence.