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noun - A hangover
- 1936: In those days a still-birth brought as high as ten dollars and after riding the shoot-the-chutes we always left a little stale beer for the morning because the finest thing in the world for Katzenjammer is a glass of stale beer. " Henry Miller, Black Spring
- The jitters
- Bewilderment
- Depression
- Discord
adjective - raucous
- A once popular American comic strip was "The Katzenjammer Kids."
Etymology: German Katzenjammer ("the wailing of cats"), hangover; a compound formed from Katzen (plural of Katze), cat + jammer, wailing or distress.
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