Associations to the word «Hangover»

Wiktionary

HANGOVER, noun. Illness caused by a previous bout of alcohol drinking.
HANGOVER, noun. An unpleasant relic left from prior events.

Dictionary definition

HANGOVER, noun. Disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol).
HANGOVER, noun. An official who remains in office after his term.
HANGOVER, noun. Something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats