hair of dog

Alcoholic beverage drunk the morning after a bender as a hangover cure. Time for a twelve step program.

F. Scott woke up at 10:00 and treated himself to a hair of the dog that bit him.

by octopod November 5, 2003

hair of dog

A drink of alcohol after a hard night of drinking.

Guy: Ohh, I'm so hung over!
Wife: Just have some hair of the dog.
Guy: *glug* *glug* *glug*

by el Burro November 5, 2003

hair of dog

"hair of the dog that bit you"- when you're hung over, having another drink to take the hang over away.

by z-dog November 5, 2003

hair of dog

A package of pills you can buy at your local gas station that supposed to help hangovers

I bought some hair of the dog

by fatsam November 6, 2003

hair of the dog

An alcoholic beverage consumed as a hangover rememdy. The phrase comes from the expression "hair of the dog that bit you", meaning that the best cure for what ails you is to have some more of it. In ancient times it was literally used to say that if a dog were to bite you, putting the dog's hair into the wound would heal it. "Like cures like". This hangover remedy is not recommended because a) it leads to a bad habit of drinking during the day and b)it doesn't really work very well. Still, this method works about as well as most other hangover remedies.

Steve: Man, I'm really paying for all those keg stands I did last night.
Tony: Yeah, I'm hurting too. Hair of the dog?
Steve: Why not, man. We got a few beers left in the fridge.

by Paco February 26, 2005

hair of the dog that bit me

Any alcoholic beverage, the consumption of which is supposed to clear up one's hangover from previous drinking (but will tend to have the opposite effect in reality). Origins of the phrase date back to medieval times, when hairs from a biting dog were put in the bite wound in the belief that this promoted healing.

Lloyd: What will you be drinking, sir?

Jack: Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd.

Lloyd: Bourbon on the rocks?

Jack: That'll do it.

by Carl Willis January 7, 2006

hair of the dog

alcoholic beverage consumed to ease a hangover (from saying "hair of the dog that bit you")

by unknown November 5, 2003