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# hangover

«hangover» in Mova's school dictionary: **the sick feeling, headache and tiredness a person has the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hangover, hangovers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hangover is the sick feeling, headache and tiredness a person has the day after drinking too much alcohol. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangover/#m1)

2) Something left over from an earlier time that still continues: «a hangover from the old days». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangover/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday adult talk, TV and news; children may hear it about grown-ups. In history and formal writing, the second sense is about old habits. Phrases: «have a hangover», «nurse a hangover».

### examples

- Dad joked he had a hangover after the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangover/#x1)
- A hangover can cause a headache and thirst. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangover/#x2)
- The old rule is a hangover from long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangover/#x3)
- Drink water to avoid feeling bad the next day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangover/#x4)
- He stayed in bed with a hangover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangover/#x5)
- This uniform rule is a hangover from the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangover/#x6)

### note

Countable. Adults' word; drinking alcohol is not for children. Related phrasal verb: «hang over» (be over something). In the «left over» sense it is formal.

### In the corpora

- [A hangover is how the body feels the day after drinking too much alcohol: headache, tiredness, thirst and feeling sick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/14/)
- ["Hair of the dog" means an alcoholic drink taken to cure a hangover, which does not really work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hangover» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hangover/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.