Meaning of hot coppers | Babel Free

Definitions

A hangover.

obsolete, plural, plural-only

Examples

“[…] gets drunk, he wakes up in the morning with a bad headache or with what, in the colonies, are called "hot coppers."”

“The drunkard’s mouth a-wash for something drinkable, The drunkard’s eye alert for casual toppers, The drunkard’s neck stooped to a lot scarce thinkable, A living, crawling blazoning of Hot-Coppers […]”

“In those days the doctor was often half-seas over when he attended his drunken patient; the parson was often drunk in the pulpit; judge, counsel and attorneys pursued their avocation in court in a prevailing atmosphere of hot coppers.”

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