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 →

2) Something left over from an earlier time that still continues: «a hangover from the old days». tree →

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 →
• A hangover can cause a headache and thirst. tree →
• The old rule is a hangover from long ago. tree →
• Drink water to avoid feeling bad the next day. tree →
• He stayed in bed with a hangover. tree →
• This uniform rule is a hangover from the past. tree →

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.
• "Hair of the dog" means an alcoholic drink taken to cure a hangover, which does not really work.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hangover» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.