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Hangover   /hˈæŋˌoʊvər/   Listen
Hangover

noun
1.
Disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol).  Synonym: katzenjammer.
2.
An official who remains in office after his term.  Synonym: holdover.
3.
Something that has survived from the past.  Synonym: holdover.  "Hangovers from the 19th century"






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"Hangover" Quotes from Famous Books



... wobbly, eh?" he jeered. "Got a bad little hangover from last night? Perhaps we were a little playful, but it's just our hearty way of welcomin' strangers. 'Specially when they come without an invitation and we ketches them peepin' through the winders. But we don't mean no harm, do we, Red?" and he leered at his companion, who grinned dutifully ...
— Bert Wilson in the Rockies • J. W. Duffield

... never been considered to have the same rights as the English. English law throughout the seventeenth century maintained the doctrine that between Christians and infidels there could exist nothing but perpetual enmity, a view which was a hangover from the period of the Crusades, wars against the Turks, and expansion by militant Christian nations into heathen lands during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is true that practical co-operation and on-the-spot recognition of ...
— Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 • Wilcomb E. Washburn

... through. When he found who we was—well, he gave us the town; he made us a present of Dawson and all points north, together with the lands, premises, privileges, and hereditaments appurtenant thereto. I still got a kind of a hangover headache and have to take ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach

... cry to the little book shop off Cooper Square, but Karl was calling for Rudolph when he next awoke to the realization that he was still in the land of the living. His head was bandaged and his tongue furry. A terrible hangover. Then he heard voices and they were discussing Peter Van Dorn. He opened one eye as an experiment. The other refused to open. But it might have been worse. At least he was alive; he could see well enough ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various

... made his head begin to throb with the authority of a true hangover. There were fifty or sixty small gnomes inside his skull, he realized, all of them with tiny little hammers. ...
— Brain Twister • Gordon Randall Garrett



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