hung

hung
   suffering from sub-acute alcoholic poisoning
   Not an illiterate usage of hanged but a shortened version of hungover:
    'Sweating out your booze?' 'You look hung yourself (Mailer, 1965)
    He put down the receiver with all the gentleness of the badly hungover. (D. Francis, 1978)

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