"hot coppers" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1892, Harold Brodrick, The Son of Man, volume 2, page 40:",
          "text": "[…] gets drunk, he wakes up in the morning with a bad headache or with what, in the colonies, are called \"hot coppers.\"",
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          "ref": "1901, William Henley, Sandwich Man:",
          "text": "The drunkard’s mouth a-wash for something drinkable,\nThe drunkard’s eye alert for casual toppers,\nThe drunkard’s neck stooped to a lot scarce thinkable,\nA living, crawling blazoning of Hot-Coppers […]",
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          "ref": "1913, Wine and Spirit News and Australian Vigneron, volume 24, page 206:",
          "text": "In those days the doctor was often half-seas over when he attended his drunken patient; the parson was often drunk in the pulpit; judge, counsel and attorneys pursued their avocation in court in a prevailing atmosphere of hot coppers.",
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        "A hangover."
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        "(obsolete) A hangover."
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          "text": "The drunkard’s mouth a-wash for something drinkable,\nThe drunkard’s eye alert for casual toppers,\nThe drunkard’s neck stooped to a lot scarce thinkable,\nA living, crawling blazoning of Hot-Coppers […]",
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