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screaming abdabs

noun

Definitions

  1. A state of extreme nervousness.

    • ...not noticing the sud smells anymore or belts over my head that gave me the screaming ab-dabs when I first came in the factory at fifteen...
    • 1971, New Scientist, page 80, by the EBSCO Publishing Firm, Meanwhile, down the road a piece, another British firm has had an attack of the abdabs.
    • ... Robert played all the time on his dummy keyboard and it drove Edna near mad, gave her the screaming abdabs as she put it.

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No curated loop yet for screaming abdabs. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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