jimjams
Example Sentences
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It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 Dixon, Maynard
For one thing, Pinto, no cop goes into hysterics at sight of a dead body unless his conscience is giving him the jimjams.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman
"Was it jimjams, or only a bad nightmare?"
From Dick in the Everglades by Dimock, A. W.
