English
Noun
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- UK A state of extreme nervousness.
#*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.
#*1986: Anthony Burgess, The Pianoplayers, page 201
#*:... Robert played all the time on his dummy keyboard and it drove Edna near mad, gave her the screaming abdabs as she put it.
#*2003: Marian Babson, The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog
#*:�This place doesn't �aif give me the screaming �abdabs.� �And how!� I agreed. All those small creatures that had once vibrated with life, now frozen ...
#*2004: Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic
#*:It's a nice night, and I�da darned sight rather take a walk out than see you work yourself into a fit of the screaming abdabs. I don't blame you, ...
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