| Front | katzenjammer \KAT-sen-jam-uhr\ |
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| Back | noun 1. Hangover 2. Distress; depression. 3. Confusion; clamor; uproar. [From German, from Katzen (plural of Katze, cat) + Jammer (distress, wailing).] "Peebles, in his rejoinder, compared the intense activity in cosmology over the last few years to `a really good party.' But he also listed open questions that, he said, left him with an `uneasy feeling'--a kind of cosmic katzenjammer--about whether the concordance will survive new and more precise tests." |
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