Hangover

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hangover \hangover\ n.
     1. An unpleasant feeling, such as a headache, occurring as an
        aftereffect from the use of drugs (especially alcohol).
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
  
     2. an official who remains in office after his term.


  
     Syn: holdover.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hangover
       n 1: disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially
            alcohol) [syn: {katzenjammer}]
       2: an official who remains in office after his term [syn: {holdover}]
       3: something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from
          the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century" [syn: {holdover}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "hangover":
     Dutch courage, a high, afterlife, befuddlement, besottedness,
     drunkenness, following, fuddle, fuddledness, fuddlement,
     future time, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication,
     katzenjammer, lateness, morning after, next life, postdate,
     postdating, posteriority, pot-valiance, pot-valor, provenience,
     remainder, sequence, sottedness, subsequence, succession,
     supervenience, supervention, tipsiness