plural noun

• Nervous anxiety or irritation.

  More example sentences

  • ‘that idea gives most lawyers the screaming abdabs’
  • ‘As long as they continue to keep out of my kitchen cupboards and bed I won't have the screaming abdabs.’
  • ‘These are the nightmare scenarios that have caused me to wake with the screaming abdabs over the past month.’
  • ‘He goes into prison (the cameraman had the abdabs) to interview the much feared mogul, who is polite and tells him nothing.’
  • ‘I'm not superstitious, but the whole area gave me a case of the screaming abdabs, something Awful and EVIL had happened nearby.’
  • ‘The thought of that could give her the screaming abdabs if she dwelled on it.’