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jitters::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies |
| Type of | nerves, nervousness |
Examples of jitters
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Watching the market gyrate because of events overseas has given him the jitters.
From the delawareonline.com
Still, entrepreneurs have more jitters than freshmen on the first day of school.
From the foxbusiness.com
There are no new coaches and systems to adapt to or playoff jitters to overcome.
From the washingtontimes.com
Her jitters have been contagious in the uneasy weeks following the Bali attacks.
From the time.com
Jitters about the chances of the deal going ahead weighed on the stock last week.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Surely, it seemed like a setting where the big center would be full of jitters.
From the ocregister.com
Worse than jitters in the money markets would be a loss of faith by depositors.
From the economist.com
Thankfully in the majority of cases these jitters don't signify anything serious.
From the style.uk.msn.com
Some Jets sheepishly admitted they got the jitters talking to him the first time.
From the tennessean.com
- Small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
- A small irregular movement
- (jitters) extreme nervousness
- (jittery) characterized by jerky movements; "a jittery ride"
- (jittery) edgy: being in a tense state
- (Jitters (Smallville)) Season one of Smallville, an American television series developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, began airing on October 16, 2001, on The WB television network. ...
- (The Jitters) The Jitters were a Canadian band formed in Toronto in 1981 by Blair Packham, Danny Levy and Matthew Greenberg. Five years of constant performing established them as one of the premier club bands in the Greater Toronto Area.
- A nervous action; a tic; A state of nervousness (primarily used in the plural - often with 'the'.); An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics; To be nervous
- (jitters) Plural of jitter
