regmaker

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noun

A drink or medicine taken as a hangover cure.

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pick-me-up
OriginAfrikaans regmaker →
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Meanings

nounregmaker (plural regmakers)

plural regmakers · alternative regemaker · alternative regmaaker

  1. South AfricaA 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 Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 26

    Synonyms: pick-me-up

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA drink or medicine taken as a hangover cure.

Similar
pick-me-up

Origin

  1. Afrikaansregmaker
  2. Englishregmaker

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

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APA

regmaker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regmaker

MLA

“regmaker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regmaker. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “regmaker,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regmaker.

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