HANGOVER


Meaning of HANGOVER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ hæŋoʊvə(r) ]

( hangovers)

1.

If someone wakes up with a hangover , they feel sick and have a headache because they have drunk a lot of alcohol the night before.

N-COUNT

2.

Something that is a hangover from the past is an idea or way of behaving which people used to have in the past but which people no longer generally have.

As a hangover from rationing, they mixed butter and margarine.

N-COUNT : with supp , usu N from n

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