| Definitions | | screaming abdabs |
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noun
- 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 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 . I don't blame you, ...
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