hangover
- 01 B2 Upper Intermediate
the headache and sick feeling you get the day after you drink too much alcohol.
the unpleasant physical effects, such as headache and nausea, following the excessive consumption of alcohol.
Simple“He woke up with a terrible hangover and promised never to drink that much again.”
In context“After the wedding celebrations, several guests appeared at breakfast nursing hangovers and requesting strong coffee.”
UsageOften used with the verbs 'have', 'nurse', or 'suffer from'.
Synonymsafter effects - 02 C2 Proficiency
a very old type of bed in a shelter where people slept by leaning over a rope.
a historical sleeping arrangement in nineteenth-century homeless shelters where occupants slept sitting up, supported by a tensioned rope.
Simple“In the old days, the poorest people paid a few pennies for a hangover in a crowded room.”
In context“Social reformers of the Victorian era documented the 'two-penny hangover' as one of the most undignified forms of shelter available to the urban poor.”
Teacher's tipThis sense is archaic and rarely understood by modern speakers outside of a historical context.
Synonymstwo penny hangover
American English; hang + over. First sense was first attested in 1904. Second sense was first attested in 1894.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.