HANGOVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hangover mean? 

• HANGOVER (noun)
  The noun HANGOVER has 3 senses:

1. disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol)

2. an official who remains in office after his term

3. something that has survived from the past

  Familiarity information: HANGOVER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANGOVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

hangover; katzenjammer

Hypernyms ("hangover" is a kind of...):

discomfort; uncomfortableness (the state of being tense and feeling pain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An official who remains in office after his term

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hangover; holdover

Hypernyms ("hangover" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something that has survived from the past

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hangover; holdover

Context example:

hangovers from the 19th century

Hypernyms ("hangover" is a kind of...):

survival (something that survives)

 Context examples 

Hangovers are likely to be influenced by ingredients other than the pure alcohol content.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

The researchers found that none of the three groups had a significantly different hangover score with different orders of alcoholic drinks.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

Unfortunately, we found that there was no way to avoid the inevitable hangover just by favouring one order over another.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

Women tended to have slightly worse hangovers than men.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

While neither blood and urine tests, nor factors such as age, sex, body weight, drinking habits and hangover frequency, helped to predict hangover intensity, vomiting and perceived drunkenness were associated with heavier hangover.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

There are no effective hangover remedies – instead, societies appear to rely on folk remedies (such as ‘hair of the dog’) and old folk sayings.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

Importantly, hangovers can lead to reduced productivity, impaired performance (including missing work or academic underperformance) and even risk to daily tasks such driving or operating heavy machinery.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

Most people will at some point in their life experience one of many the downsides of excess drinking: the hangover.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

Hangover symptoms occur when higher-than-normal blood alcohol concentrations drop back to zero.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

Colourings and flavourings have been suggested as making hangovers worse, which might explain why, at the same alcohol concentration, Bourbon causes a more severe hangover than vodka.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)