jimjams
Americanplural noun
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a slang word for delirium tremens
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a state of nervous tension, excitement, or anxiety
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informal pyjamas
Etymology
Origin of jimjams
1540–50; gradational compound based on jam 1. Cf. flimflam, jingle-jangle, etc.
Example Sentences
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To sidewalk farmers, who suppose that a ridgeling is the peak in a barn roof and a freemartin a species of swallow,*some of Gus's outbuildings and his hog runs might well give the jimjams.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’m due to have some bad dreams to-night anyhow, on the strength of this snake-killin’, but it’d give me the jumpin’ jimjams if I had to sleep next to them remains.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
O, we’re camped in the sand in a foreign land Near the mighty Agus River, With the brush at our toes, the skeeters at our nose, The jimjams and the fever.
From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Paul T. (Paul Thomas) Gilbert
But in the play you almost have a set of love jimjams on account of that woman, and let her reform you, and all that sort of thing.
From Bolanyo by Opie Percival Read
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