Other forms: hangovers
A hangover is the sick heavy feeling the morning after drinking. A terrible hangover, cure the hangover, nurse a hangover.
Dehydration explains only part of it, and the rest comes from what the body makes while breaking the alcohol down, which is why nothing reliably cures one. The word also means anything left over from an earlier time.
1nounhangoverThe sick heavy feeling the morning after drinking.
“He woke up with a terrible hangover after his friend's birthday party.”
hangover is a feeling.
Hang plus over, American English, first recorded in this sense in 1904.
American English; hang + over. First sense was first attested in 1904. Third sense was first attested in 1894.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA