different between hangover vs hangup

English

Alternative forms

• hang-over

Etymology

American English; hang +? over. First sense was first attested in 1904. Second sense was first attested in 1894.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæ?o?v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæ???v?/

Noun

hangover (plural hangovers)

1. Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.

   Synonym: veisalgia

   Antonym: afterglow

2. Similar negative effects caused by previous excessive consumption of something else, such as a drug, coffee, sugar, etc.
   • 2007, Suzanne Barnett, Jennifer Barnett Lesman, Amy Barnett Buchanan, Bev West, 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet, St. Martin's Press (?ISBN)

     Don't go overboard and find yourself with a sugar hangover that lasts for days and makes your diet days that much harder.

   • 2007, Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 4:

     So today I walk into Dr. Singer's office with a heroin hangover, a headache like hell, vomiting, shaking, jonesing. I cannot bear to admit to her that it's come to this. I've been doing so well. But I missed therapy the whole time I was locked up […]

   • 2011, Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth, The Feminist Press at CUNY (?ISBN):

     On the other hand, I was already drunk, and wasn't a heroin hangover preferable to the alcohol kind any day of the week?

   • 2015, Alexandra Jamieson, Women, Food, and Desire, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 7:

     We're left with our unmet needs and a sugar high that will quickly turn into a sugar hangover. So the craving rises again, calling out to us “Feed me!” and again we take the easy route and stuff it back down with food.

   • 2018, Pat Fitzpatrick, No Sex, No Sleep, Mercier Press Ltd (?ISBN)

     You know nothing about despair until you have experienced a coffee hangover. This is where you lose the run of yourself and have two double espressos in a row. Ten minutes later you have a weird feeling you are going to puke out through your toes.

3. (figuratively) An unpleasant relic left from prior events.
4. (historical) A sleeping arrangement, usually in homeless shelters, over a rope.

Derived terms

• hangxiety

Translations

See also

• hung over

Anagrams

• overhang

English

Noun

hangup (plural hangups)

1. Alternative spelling of hang-up

Anagrams

• uphang