Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural The jitters.
  • noun plural Delirium tremens.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun informal pajamas

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Expressive of the trembling associated with delirium tremens.]

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word jim-jams.

Examples

  • 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.

    Pajama Club: Pajama Club – review 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • I will warm your milk and squirt it over your jim-jams.

    Bone Dust Disco Penny Goring 2010

  • 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.

    British schools chief Michael Gove gets his sums wrong 2010

  • 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.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite (somewhat late). 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • That's got to give them & their neighbors the jim-jams.

    Archive 2009-03-22 Bas Bleu 2009

  • 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

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • 1. The jitters. 2. Delirium tremens.

    February 12, 2008

  • Also, in our house, pyjamas.

    February 12, 2008