regmaker
A drink or medicine taken as a hangover cure.
Noun
- A drink or medicine taken as a hangover cure.
- It is dark inside after the bright sun but I feel for my chair and reach for the salt for my eggs and I hear him say in a slow begging voice Anna get me a regmaker. - 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short...
Synonyms: pick-me-up
Origin
Borrowed from Afrikaans regmaker, from reg (“right”) + maker (“maker”).