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morning after

noun

Informal a hangover or a painful awakening

morning-after Definition

morn·ing-after (-af′tər)

adjective

  1. having to do with a morning after or the depressed feelings usually associated with it
  2. designating or of a pill taken after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy

morning-after Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • pill: SCOTLAND - Men in Glasgow are to be offered free supplies of the morning-after pill to keep at home.
  • syndrome: The morning-after syndrome: how do we cope with it?
morning-after Quotes

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has donehitherto isto improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

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