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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Suffering from a hangover.
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Examples
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This scheduling tends to strike people as funny because, as they point out, it makes it very likely a sizable portion of the guests will be hung-over on the day of the ceremony.
Lori Fradkin: I'm Going to a New Year's Wedding ... and I'm Happy About It Lori Fradkin 2011
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This scheduling tends to strike people as funny because, as they point out, it makes it very likely a sizable portion of the guests will be hung-over on the day of the ceremony.
Lori Fradkin: I'm Going to a New Year's Wedding ... and I'm Happy About It Lori Fradkin 2011
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Latif is on hand to make public appearances for Uday when Uday needs to be in two places at once, or when he's too hung-over -- or when there's a plausible threat against his life.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Devil's Double Marshall Fine 2011
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Instead of waking up in a Las Vegas hotel room to find a baby, the hung-over buddies wake up in a Thai hotel room to find a capuchin monkey.
A Towering 'Tree,' Out on a Limb Joe Morgenstern 2011
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They come to work hung-over from partying with each other the night before.
Naperville City Council Considers Layoffs for City Employees; Sales Tax? 2009
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Today is, of course, a time of new beginnings and fresh dawns, of creeping doubts, punctured hopes, tearful epiphanies and, finally perhaps, a sense of hung-over, sofa-based defiance in front of early-evening Miss Marple.
Edin Dzeko's calendar month has finally arrived | Barney Ronay 2011
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Have I mentioned the famous chef that arrives so hung-over every single time I've worked with him that it's a given that he will ask for a cocktail at 7 a.m.?
Denise Vivaldo: Paula Deen and the Slippery Slope Denise Vivaldo 2012
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The next night he looked like one happy, hung-over soldier.
Show the Proof, Mr. President Peggy Noonan 2011
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Have I mentioned the famous chef that arrives so hung-over every single time I've worked with him that it's a given that he will ask for a cocktail at 7 a.m.?
Denise Vivaldo: Paula Deen and the Slippery Slope Denise Vivaldo 2012
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I am glad to report that none of them seem to be hung-over.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Book Coming Soon from Michael Bellesiles 2010
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