Word forms: plural hangovers1. countable nounIf someone wakes up with a hangover, they feel sick and have a headache because they have drunk a lot of alcohol the night before.
2. countable nounSomething that is a hangover from the past is an idea or way of behaving which people used to have in the past but which people no longer generally have.
As a hangover from rationing, they mixed butter and margarine. [+ from]
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