hangover

noun

/ˈhæŋəʊ̯vəː/ ~ /ˈhæŋɵ̞ʊ̯vəː/UK/ˈhæŋəʉ̯vəː/ ~ /ˈhæŋɐʉ̯vəː//ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/US/ˈheɪ̯ŋoʊ̯vɚ/CA

Etymology

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

1
Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to…
Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.
- I really enjoyed yesterday’s party, but now I have the biggest hangover – I’ll not be doing that again any time soon.
2
Similar negative effects caused by previous excessive consumption of another substance,…
Similar negative effects caused by previous excessive consumption of another substance, such as a drug, coffee, sugar, etc.
- Don't go overboard and find yourself with a sugar hangover that lasts for days and makes your diet days that much harder.
- On the other hand, I was already drunk, and wasn't a heroin hangover preferable to the alcohol kind any day of the week?
3
An unpleasant relic left from prior events.
- The one hangover from high school that colored part of my college career was the social requirement of having a boyfriend.
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1. 4
  A sleeping arrangement, usually in homeless shelters, over a rope.
  - At the Twopenny Hangover, the lodgers sit in a row on a bench; there is a rope in front of them, and they lean on this as though leaning over a fence. A man, humorously called the valet, cuts the rope at five in the morning.

No curated loop yet for hangover. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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