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noun
- the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- something remaining behind from a former period or state of affairs.
- any aftermath of or lingering effect from a distressing experience: the post-Watergate hangover in Washington.
noun
- the delayed aftereffects of drinking too much alcohol in a relatively short period of time, characterized by headache and sometimes nausea and dizziness
- a person or thing left over from or influenced by a past age
also hang-over, 1894, “a survival, a thing left over from before,” from hang (v.) + over. Meaning “after-effect of drinking too much” is first attested 1904, on notion of something left over from the night before.