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The unpleasant results of an earlier activity, especially overindulgence in alcohol. For example, A headache is just one of the symptoms of the morning after . This expression originated in the late 1800s as a synonym for a hangover (and was often put as the morning after the night before ). By the mid-1900s, however, it was also being used more loosely for the aftereffects of staying up late.Advertisement
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