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Definition of hair of the dog that bit ya

hair of the dog that bit (one)

noun

  • a drink of alcohol in the morning - of the same type one was drinking the previous night - to ward off or stop a hangover.

    Frequently shortened to "hair of the dog."

    Last edited on Mar 29 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 10 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'bit':

Definitions include: excessive.
Definitions include: sexual activity.
Definitions include: of weather, cold, causing nipples to harden.
Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."
Definitions include: a joke from a comedy routine.
Definitions include: the place where all deleted, lost, or misdirected data goes to.
Definitions include: a hypothetical disease that causes programs to run more poorly over time and causes documents to become corrupted.
Definitions include: to be eager.
Definitions include: testicles.
Definitions include: genitals.
Definitions include: to have sex with someone who is not one's significant other.
Definitions include: Threatening rain.
Definitions include: angry, looks bad, pissed, annoyed, unusual looking.
Definitions include: genitals.
Definitions include: insignificant.

Other terms relating to 'dog':

Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate.
Definitions include: be in serious trouble.
Definitions include: the best at something; "the man".
Definitions include: to start drinking alcohol again in the morning to avoid feeling hung-over.
Definitions include: two people who become enemies and make conflicts.
Definitions include: raining hard.
Definitions include: one of many apocryphal sex "moves".
Definitions include: When a person deficates between a females breasts and then "titty fucks" that female
Definitions include: very crazy.
Definitions include: alternate spelling of dog.
Definitions include: a mess, from "dog's breakfast."
Definitions include: daughter; acronym for "dear daughter".
Definitions include: to engage in an unproductive activity; waste time.
Definitions include: a friend.
Definitions include: "dog and bone" is Cockney slang for phone.

Other terms relating to 'hair':

Definitions include: a day during which one can't make one's hair look good.
Definitions include: to bother someone.
Definitions include: an elderly person.
Definitions include: a measure of very minute distance.
Definitions include: a cunt hair.
Definitions include: a very small amount - about the distance represented by the thickness of a female pubic hair.
Definitions include: to perform cunnilingus.
Definitions include: extremely attractive.
Definitions include: has to do with a very fine filament.
Definitions include: to get a wild impulse.
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: a glam metal band.
Definitions include: the vulva, especially if unshaven.
Definitions include: a person who grows their hair long out of laziness, or a repressed sense of social rebellion.
Definitions include: a drink of alcohol in the morning - of the same type one was drinking the previous night - to ward off or stop a hangover.

Other terms relating to 'of':

Definitions include: a worthless person.
Definitions include: sexual activity.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a little crazy
Definitions include: of lower than average intelligence.
Definitions include: "not all there".
Definitions include: skittish.
Definitions include: an amount of violence.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: many.
Definitions include: an emphatic "yes".
Definitions include: better than all that.
Definitions include: the best.

Other terms relating to 'that':

Definitions include: an ugly face.
Definitions include: superior, as good as it gets.
Definitions include: better than all that.
Definitions include: the best.
Definitions include: et cetera.
Definitions include: "that a".
Definitions include: interjection of encouragement.
Definitions include: interjection of encouragement.
Definitions include: to approve or agree
Definitions include: to do something bad to someone that takes care of one.
Definitions include: British expression meaning that the speaker doesn't want to do something.
Definitions include: it means to ignore, let go or pay him/her no attention.
Definitions include: See burn a bridge.
Definitions include: to change what one says about something.
Definitions include: to understand.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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