hair of the dog

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   an alcoholic drink supposed to cure a hangover

   Broaderdrink

Questions about hair of the dog

What does hair of the dog mean?

hair of the dog means "an alcoholic drink supposed to cure a hangover".

Is hair of the dog a common word?

hair of the dog is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.