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Jitters   /dʒˈɪtərz/   Listen
noun
jitters  n.  An uneasy state; nervousness; as, the prospect of being drafted gave him a bad case of the jitters.
Synonyms: nervousness, nerves, screaming meemies.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jitters" Quotes from Famous Books



... largest experimental base in the world, a veritable garden of atoms, the proving grounds for every secret weapon ever imagined. The security and the tight regulations gave Crawford the jitters on ...
— The Second Voice • Mann Rubin

... and communicate with the hidden Solar Guard fleet around him, lest he give away their positions, Strong found the loneliness driving him into a case of jitters ...
— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell

... me the jitters to see him pointing his weapon at her. I don't know why I stood there watching him take careful aim, but I did. Then he squeezed the handle of his weapon; there was a little puff of steam, and Fancy Long was gone! And in her place was one ...
— A Martian Odyssey • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum



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