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hangover
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)
- Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.
- Synonym: veisalgia
- Antonym: afterglow
- 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.
- 2007, Suzanne Barnett, Jennifer Barnett Lesman, Amy Barnett Buchanan, Bev West, 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet, St. Martin's Press (?ISBN)
- (figuratively) An unpleasant relic left from prior events.
- (historical) A sleeping arrangement, usually in homeless shelters, over a rope.
Derived terms
- hangxiety
Translations
See also
- hung over
Anagrams
- overhang
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hungover
English
Alternative forms
- hung over
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h?????.v?(?)/, /h?????.v?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h???ouv?/
- Hyphenation: hung?over
Adjective
hungover (comparative more hungover, superlative most hungover)
- Suffering from a hangover.
Translations
Anagrams
- overhung
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