the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
2.
something remaining behind from a former period or state of affairs.
3.
any aftermath of or lingering effect from a distressing experience:
the post-Watergate hangover in Washington.
Origin
1890-95, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase hang over
Synonyms
1. queasiness, sickishness, qualm, nausea.
Examples from the web for hangover
And the best thing after a hangover position is to not compound the mistake with more drinking.
The only certain way to avoid a hangover is to limit your drinking.
There is probably no hangover that comes anywhere close to the hangover from an exorcism.
And by the next morning, you're likely to feel awful-the throbbing, band-around-the-head feeling of a migraine or a hangover.
In all likelihood, the hangover has been a part of human history a lot longer than the goblet.
If things don't go well, one can get acute mountain sickness, which often starts with a headache reminiscent of a hangover.
But alcohol's effects on our heads go well beyond a mere hangover.
JuJu: nah, you recalibrate everything constantly, so there's no way this could be a hangover from infancy.
The afternoon-free from the blur of hangover or the fug of sleep-is when our shared predicament on this planet becomes clear.
His memoir evokes both the intoxication of the revolution and the hangover that followed.
British Dictionary definitions for hangover
hangover
/ˈhæŋˌəʊvə/
noun
1.
the delayed aftereffects of drinking too much alcohol in a relatively short period of time, characterized by headache and sometimes nausea and dizziness
2.
a person or thing left over from or influenced by a past age
Word Origin and History for hangover
n.
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.
Slang definitions & phrases for hangover
hangover
noun
The headache, morbid sensitivity, nausea, etc, felt upon awakening some hours after drinking too much liquor (1912+)