Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The jitters.
- noun plural Delirium tremens.
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- noun informal
pajamas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The lacklustre band name – picked because main members Neil and Sharon Finn formed Pajama Club while lounging in their jim-jams one night – is a terrible introduction to an unexpectedly off-kilter project by the Crowded House leader and his wife.
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La Senza has lots of nice underwear and cute jim-jams for all ages.
Downton Abbey's just the opiate of the middle classes | Barbara Ellen 2012
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Smoke, you eat'm raw, you eat'm alive, you work under water, you've given me the jim-jams; but just the same I know it's a dream.
SHORTY DREAMS 2010
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I will warm your milk and squirt it over your jim-jams.
Bone Dust Disco Penny Goring 2010
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All of the overseas recruits speak excellent English, says the hospital, but still can't fathom what patients mean when they say they feel under the weather, can't find their jim-jams, or are tickled pink.
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I was sitting at the end of my bed after coming out of the shower, getting ready to change into my jim-jams, when I got the shock of my life.
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It was being the star who gave producers the jim-jams by doing his own stunts with fast vehicles.
Number one with a Bullitt Bas Bleu 2009
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It was being the star who gave producers the jim-jams by doing his own stunts with fast vehicles.
Archive 2009-08-30 Bas Bleu 2009
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That's got to give them & their neighbors the jim-jams.
Archive 2009-03-22 Bas Bleu 2009
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You might think that death would be pretty blatant, but there were a number of famous cases in which a dead body sat up and went on living, and many Victorians got the jim-jams just thinking about the possibility of being buried alive.
Her Fearful Symmetry AUDREY NIFFENEGGER 2009
reesetee commented on the word jim-jams
1. The jitters. 2. Delirium tremens.
February 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word jim-jams
Also, in our house, pyjamas.
February 12, 2008