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social hangover

social hangover noun: a feeling of exhaustion experienced after excessively engaging in social activities.

Noun

social hangover (plural social hangovers)

  1. (colloquial, uncommon) A feeling of exhaustion experienced after excessively engaging in social activities.
    • Wallace felt the social hangover brought about by the recklessness of American occupation, warfare, and statehood. “We are now like fast boys upon their travels, and our imprudences have brought us into trouble,” he mused.2004, William F. Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past, University of California Press, page 22
    • What some people call a 'social hangover' is the feeling of exhaustion after depleting all your energy.2021 May 14, Kirsty Grant, “Covid lockdown easing: Why am I exhausted after socialising?”, in BBC, archived from the original on 03 May 2024

Examples of social hangover in a sentence

  • A social hangover generally feels a lot like a burnout: fatigue, inability to concentrate, some grouchiness.2021 May 16, Rhys Thomas, “How to tell if you have a ‘social hangover’ (and how to minimise one if you do)”, in GQ, archived from the...
  • If you’re feeling the fatigue of a ‘social hangover’, the next step is knowing when to say no, and then how to say no.2023 February 8, “Feeling zonked? You may have a social hangover”, in HBF, archived from the original on 03 May 2024:

Forms of social hangover

pluralsocial hangovers

Questions about social hangover

What does social hangover mean?
Social hangover means a feeling of exhaustion experienced after excessively engaging in social activities.
How do you use social hangover in a sentence?
A social hangover generally feels a lot like a burnout: fatigue, inability to concentrate, some grouchiness.
What part of speech is social hangover?
Social hangover is a noun.
What is the plural of social hangover?
The plural of social hangover is social hangovers.

Words near social hangover in the dictionary

  1. social graphs
  2. social group
  3. social groups
  4. social handbag
  5. social handbags
  6. social hangover
  7. social hangovers
  8. social histories
  9. social history
  10. social housing
  11. social hygiene

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