Definitions for hangover

hangover hang·o·ver

Spelling: [hang-oh-ver]
IPA: /ˈhæŋˌoʊ vər/

Hangover is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 291 anagrams from letters in hangover (aeghnorv).

Definitions for hangover

noun

  1. 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:

Origin of hangover

1890-95, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase hang over

Examples for hangover

One can only assume the hangover cries: “whoa, who did I vote for last night?”

When he had awakened, it had been with the euphoria all gone and with his present hangover.

By the late 1600s, chemists and herbalists had begun to concoct their own scientific mixtures for curing the hangover.

Coca-Cola was a wildly popular drink and hangover remedy because, well, it contained cocaine.

You've worked off the kwil and now you're in the hangover period.

hangover or no hangover, Malone told himself grimly, there was work to be done.

The hangover star, currently in the critically acclaimed Birdman, certainly knows how to bring the funny as well as the awkward.

Naturally, hangover or no, Johnny had reported for work first.

hangover Rx: “The old ‘hair of the dog’ is pretty much just a myth,” says White.

The Omans do altogether too good a job on them and there's no such thing as a hangover.

Word Value for hangover
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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