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katzenjammers

katzenjammers is the plural of katzenjammer.

Meaning of katzenjammer

Noun

katzenjammer (plural katzenjammers)

  1. A hangover.
    • Also, I had found my way into the realm of the mind, and I was intellectually intoxicated. (Alas! as I was to learn at a later period, intellectual intoxication too, has its katzenjammer.)1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC
  2. Jitters; discord; confusion.
    • Tell you the truth, I've had an intimation from the State Department—unofficially, of course—that whenever a soldier of fortune demands a fleet of gunboats in a case of revolutionary katzenjammer, I should cut the cable, give him all the tobacco he wants, and after he's shot take his clothes, if...1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Two Renegades”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 356
  3. Depression.

Noun capitalized: Katzenjammers

Katzenjammers

  1. (plural) plural of Katzenjammer

Questions about katzenjammers

What is katzenjammers the plural of?
Katzenjammers is the plural of katzenjammer.
What part of speech is katzenjammers?
Katzenjammers is a noun.

Words near katzenjammers in the dictionary

  1. Katz syndrome
  2. katzbalger
  3. katzbalgers
  4. Katzenberg
  5. katzenjammer
  6. katzenjammers
  7. Katzenklavier
  8. Katzer
  9. Katzers
  10. Katzian
  11. Katzie

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