hang-over/hangover - word of the day

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2. The unpleasant after-effects of (esp. alcoholic) dissipation. 

1904 ‘G. WURDZ’ Foolish Dict., Brain,usually occupied by the Intellect Bros., Thoughts and Ideas as an Intelligence Office, but sometimes sub-let to Jag, Hang-Over & Co. 1912 W. IRWIN Red Button 93 This was the first time in his life that Tommy North had ever admitted a ‘hangover’. 1935 D. L. SAYERS Gaudy Night viii. 161 ‘How's Miss Cattermole?’ ‘Bad hang-over. As you might expect.’ 1942 New Statesman 11 July 26/1 But the use of myths has a similar effect to the use of alcohol: an inevitable hang-over follows the original elation. 1957 Listener 18 July 105/2 Its [sc. coffee's] ability to quicken the spirits, and, above all, to remove the vestiges of those severe hang-overs which afflicted our hard-drinking fore~fathers. 1959 N. MAILER Advts. for Myself (1961) 220 It was the only good writing I ever did directly from a drug, even if I paid for it with a hangover beyond measure. 1962 K. ORVIS Damned & Destroyed ix. 59 Her eyes were walled in panic, flaming with hangover pain.

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