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In September 2020, claims that the word hangover was derived from a cheap, rope-based form of accommodation prized by drunken sailors went viral on social media, often accompanied by a picture of the alleged practice: The accompanying text reads: The photo of alleged drunken sailors, titled Actors 'Sleeping' Draped Over Ropes in the Getty Images archive, actually stems from the production of the film The Great Train Robbery (1978): The caption associated with that photo makes joking reference to the term hangover: Speaking to the AFP by email, however, associate professor of historical linguistics at the UK's University of Lancaster Daniel Van Olmen described the word-origin claim as nonsense. As explained by Merriam-Webster, the term — first documented in 1894 — refers to a residual after-effect: Because the claim has no basis in fact, the assertion is False.
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