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Definition of "hung-over" []

  • Suffering from a hangover. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hung-over" in a sentence
  • "The next night he looked like one happy, hung-over soldier."
  • "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.?"
  • "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."
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