jitters in English

noun

1

feelings of extreme nervousness.

a bout of the jitters

synonyms: nervousness, nerves, edginess, uneasiness, anxiety, anxiousness, tension, agitation, restlessness, stage fright, butterflies (in one's stomach), the willies, the creeps, collywobbles, the heebie-jeebies, jitteriness, the jim-jams

2

slight irregular movement, variation, or unsteadiness, especially in an electrical signal or electronic device.

Not once did I experience any sort of mouse jitter or discrepancies in movement.

verb

1

act nervously.

an anxious student who jittered at any provocation

noun

• nervousness, nerves, edginess, uneasiness, anxiety, anxiousness, tension, agitation, restlessness, stage fright, butterflies (in one's stomach), the willies, the creeps, collywobbles, the heebie-jeebies, jitteriness, the jim-jams
• screaming meemies, heebie-jeebies

Use "jitters" in a sentence

1. I still have the jitters.

2. You've got the wedding - day jitters!

3. Jumps in asset prices risk causing premature inflation jitters.

4. This is just the old pre-wedding jitters, Son.

5. But Beijing has also been giving markets the jitters.

6. It'shook me up too, I still have the jitters.

7. The whole city had the jitters from the bombing.

8. Jitters had been wounded early, and washed back to the landing craft.

9. After the initial pre-game jitters... it was a sensation, you know?

10. 7 Come away from that cliff edge! You're giving me the jitters!

11. He hadn't kept track, but he thought he had sensed Jitters going down.

12. Just ask anyone who has suffered from the jitters after their fourth Grande Foamless Cafe Latte.

13. As I drove to her house, I actually had a case of predate jitters!

14. JITTER Meaning: "to move Agitatedly," 1931, American English, of unknown origin; see jitters

15. But the jitters and anxieties usually associated with a starring role in a new play are nowhere to be seen.

16. 16 Its swoon in after-hours trading suggests that more high-tech market jitters may be in the offing today, however.

17. 30 The jitters are worst in the capital, where 61% of people are fearful of a terrorist attack.

18. Another woman Comically strung-out is interrupted in her jitters by a wounded man who tumbles hard through the cafe doors: 6

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20. Off San Francisco Bay, the submarine jitters struck again, this time as Hammann reported a contact on the morning of 22 January and depth charged the "contact" with negative results.

21. Dntel moves to German Pampa label for Aimlessness, a further exploration of sound and texture, as "Waitingfortherest II" opens the album with some Hecker-like refraction before "Jitters" offers a brisk rhythm to accompany the perky melody.

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