blind staggers
Americannoun
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Informal. a condition of staggering staggering and dizziness, especially as the result of drunkenness.
noun
Etymology
Origin of blind staggers
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
Example Sentences
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Expert equine advices took blind staggers during the week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Evelyn Waugh, the author believes that fate has the blind staggers.
From Time Magazine Archive
A vaccine against this disease, which is also called equine encephalomyelitis and blind staggers, is made from the brains of infected horses.
From Time Magazine Archive
I kept picturing in my mind mad dogs and mad wolves reeling about with the blind staggers, drooling slobbers and snapping and biting at everything in sight.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
I should think that such hosses as he furnished would be a vain thing for safety, for nigh about the hull of 'em was spavined, or ring-boned, or foundered, or had the blind staggers.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba
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