[syn: hangover, holdover]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
hangover \hangover\ n.
1. An unpleasant feeling, such as a headache, occurring as an
aftereffect from the use of drugs (especially alcohol).
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. an official who remains in office after his term.
Syn: holdover.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hangover
n 1: disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially
alcohol) [syn: hangover, katzenjammer]
2: an official who remains in office after his term [syn:
holdover, hangover]
3: something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from
the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century" [syn:
hangover, holdover]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "hangover":
Dutch courage, a high, afterlife, befuddlement, besottedness,
drunkenness, following, fuddle, fuddledness, fuddlement,
future time, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication,
katzenjammer, lateness, morning after, next life, postdate,
postdating, posteriority, pot-valiance, pot-valor, provenience,
remainder, sequence, sottedness, subsequence, succession,
supervenience, supervention, tipsiness