Regmaker

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A drink or medicine taken as a hangover cure. South-Africa

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans regmaker, from reg (“right”) + maker (“maker”).

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