hangover
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈhæŋˌoʊvər/
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vestigio
- The hangover we need to worry about won't be caused by beer and tequila.
I mean, we, this, this hangover from the last century, they're still going on.
- I mean, we, this, this hangover from the last century, they're still going on.
- And I that's still the kind of hangover of Iraq and Afghanistan, but there's a difference.
- I mean, there's definitely a kind of hangover of those who missed having Russia as the bogeyman who spoke.
- And we are allowing ourselves to be very reclusive because of the hangover that's happened.
- And do you think as well that there is a real hangover of I've spent a year thinking, living, breathing this event.
- When we talk about blocks and we talk about success, there's a sometimes a hangover, a wound.
Examples
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I feel like some of this is a hangover from his poor playoff showing.
Blog text (11) -
I'm sure it's a hangover from those times.
Blog text (23) -
It's a hangover from my Oxford days.
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Hangover from the old days.
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And we are allowing ourselves to be very reclusive because of the hangover that's happened.
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While this struggle was imprinted upon the generation of the time, the fear of demagoguery seemed a curious hangover.
Academic text (1993) -
RIM keeping hold of this outdated hangover from a bygone era is symbolic of what is wrong with the company.
Blog text (31) -
Rather, Egypt was forced to reopen the exchanges and to attract private international capital in order to emerge from the post-Cold War hangover in which it found itself in the early 1990s.
Academic text (1995) -
Then, our birthdays duly celebrated, we’d take taxis home, where families and hangovers awaited us.
Fiction book (2000) -
The conservative policies introduced in the 1980s seem to be a hangover from earlier political attitudes.
Synonyms
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6.6
Something that remains from an earlier time
Compounds
- Informal
A feeling of being emotionally tired after spending a long time with other people
How Persistent
Surface Forms
Morphology
hangover = hang (semi-transparent) = over + hang
The components suggest something that 'hangs over' from the past, but the generalized meaning 'a remnant from an earlier time' is a metaphorical extension rather than a strictly compositional sense. [Postprocessing: moved 'over' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Hangover is also used for something left from the past and comes from the phrase hang over, meaning 'to remain', so a hangover from an old law or custom is something that still 'hangs over' us today.