hang-over

Noun

hangover (plural hangovers)

1. Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.
   • I really enjoyed yesterday’s party, but now I have the biggest hangover – I’ll not be doing that again any time soon.

   Synonyms:

   veisalgia

   Antonyms:

   afterglow

2. Similar negative effects caused by previous excessive consumption of another substance, such as a drug, coffee, sugar, etc.
   • Don't go overboard and find yourself with a sugar hangover that lasts for days and makes your diet days that much harder.2007, Suzanne Barnett, Jennifer Barnett Lesman, Amy Barnett Buchanan, Bev West, 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN
3. (figuratively) An unpleasant relic left from prior events.
   • The one hangover from high school that colored part of my college career was the social requirement of having a boyfriend.1981 February 7, Nancy Walker, “A Gentle Guy”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 13
4. (historical) A sleeping arrangement, usually in homeless shelters, over a rope.
   • At the Twopenny Hangover, the lodgers sit in a row on a bench; there is a rope in front of them, and they lean on this as though leaning over a fence. A man, humorously called the valet, cuts the rope at five in the morning.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXVII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC