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zinckenited adj. Loosened by drink into a heavy, argumentative mixture that resists being put in a taxi. zinclipscombited adj. Emboldened by drink to treat the last train as a minor obstacle rather than a fixed departure. zincobotryogened adj. Drunk and bright with confidence, soft enough to remain beside the coats until morning. zincocalcited adj. Drunk to the point where the journey home has become a settled mixture of two incompatible destinations. zincochromited adj. You have drunk enough to classify the evening by mineral composition, with zinc standing in for chromium. Azalene spent supper distinguishing zinc from chromium, thoroughly zincochromited and constitutionally certain. zincoded adj. You are drunk and functioning as the positive terminal towards which every remaining conversation proceeds. zincoed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a line being drawn carefully, badly and on the wrong plate. zincographed adj. Of a drinker: fixed in a metallic impression, with every remark pressed permanently into the company’s memory. zincographered adj. Of a drinker who has engraved the evening into metal, rather than trusting recollection to survive. zincographied adj. A drinker who turns fleeting impressions into dark, sharply printed allegations. zincographisted adj. Describing a drinker who reproduces every conversation in hard, durable outlines. Rade was zincographisted, rendering a casual greeting as a detailed public record. zincolibethenited adj. A drinker so far gone that complexion, conversation and judgement have acquired an improbable greenish complexity. zincolivenited adj. The state of being drunk and arranged in a crystalline argument involving copper, zinc and unwarranted certainty. zincolysised adj. The condition of a drinker who is being slowly separated into ions, opinions and less useful components. zincolyted adj. The drunkenness of one who conducts the evening by carrying emotional charge between opposing parties. zincorhodochrosited adj. Reduced by drink to a rosy, zinc-bearing authority on matters requiring no such authority.