10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABDABS»
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Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd
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THEY APPEARED IN WEST ONE, THE REGENT STREET POLYTECHNIC
STUDENT NEWSPAPER, IN EARLY 1964. PICTURED FROM LEFT ARE NICK ...
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
1, 2002 abdabs; habdabs; screaming abdabs noun a condition of anxiety,
uneasiness, nervousness; also, but rarely, delirium tremens or a state of enraged
frustration uk, 7946 Always following 'the', usually now phrased 'to give you (the ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
give someone the screaming abdabs induce an attack of extreme anxiety or
irritation in someone. Abdabs (or habdabs) is mid 20th-century slang whose
origin is unknown. The word is sometimes also used to mean an attack of
delirium ...
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Shorter Slang Dictionary
a amphetamine. Drug users' slang. Used in the USA since before 1967. abdabs
or habdabs in the screaming abdabs, a state of enraged frustration, esp. in to
give (sb) the screaming abdabs; to have the screaming abdabs. Since around
1950.
Paul Beale, Eric Partridge, Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
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Pink Floyd - The Early Years
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writing in the Poly magazine: “An ... pop grouphere at the Poly call themselves'
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
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rate. 6 The full form of this expression is A1 at Lloyd's. In Lloyd's Register of
Shipping, the ...
John Abdabs and two others jumped into a van and drove up to the edge of the
reservoir, which was as quiet and as still as the marbled moat of a ruined Norman
castle. Fanning out into a corridor of some ten yards they worked around the ...
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Rock Formations: Categorical Answers to How Band Names Were ...
Earlier names had included Sigma 6, The T-Sets, The Abdabs, The Screaming
Abdabs, The Architectural Abdabs (Roger Waters had attended architectural
college), Sigma 6 (again), before changing to The The Acknowledgements 69.
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
In den'! come—or, give me—the old abdabs, don't tell me the tale: C.20, esp.
WW2. By itself, abdabs was, in WW2, occ. used for 'afters'. —2. In the screaming
abdabs, an attack of delirium tremens: since late 1930s. Since ca. 1942, abdabs
has ...
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Internet Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Television ...
Here, however, in a comic twist, Bloody Mary and her friends, Abdabs, Samantha,
Malevolent and Viscera, are ghouls, who haunt the living when summoned to
help—not harm them, and in their offtime, share their experiences at a pub called
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABDABS»
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abdabs is used in the context of the following news items.
Daily catch-up: two new sets of figures suggest the gap between rich …
(Screaming) abdabs. Alms. Athletics. Dregs. Impedimenta. (High) jinks. Linguistics. Mathematics. Mews. Odds. Paraphernalia. Physics. Police. «The Independent, Jun 15»
How to succeed in the music industry
His father Keith was a songwriter too, and in the 1960s had been a member of the Screaming Abdabs, the band that went on to become Pink ... «Financial Times, May 15»
Pink Floyd gets commemorative plaque
... first started performing together, it was under a host of different names, including 'Sigma 6' and the 'Screaming Abdabs'. — AFP-Relaxnews ... «Malay Mail Online, May 15»
Mourners pack church to pay last respects to town's former mayor
She was also a champion of major town projects such as the splash park in The Leys and worked with groups such as Abdabs theatre ... «Oxford Mail, May 15»
Henry Jacob: Jailed by court, hailed by fans
He is the screaming nemesis who gives the screaming abdabs to his opponents. You could call his stunts gormless but he is anything but a ... «Gulf Today, May 15»
'Pink Floyd now appear to belong to the National Trust'
Nick Mason: “This is around '64 in the Common Room when we were the Screaming Abdabs” — (from left) Clive Metcalfe, Sheilagh Noble, ... «The Times, May 15»
Los nombres originales (ya veces ridículos) de famosas bandas
... no era tan creativo como parece), The (Screaming) Abdabs, The Architectural Abdabs, Leonard's Lodgers, The Spectrum Five y The Tea Set. «Sopitas.com, Apr 15»
'Fantastic' ex-mayor Chrissie 'loved by all'
A statement on the Abdabs website where Ms Curry helped out for many years, read: “Chrissie was a fantastic Witney mayor and she was a ... «The Oxford Times, Apr 15»
A proposal for regional federalism
Whenever I hear a politician, of any signal or colour, speak of democracy I get the screaming abdabs or I wake up in a cold sweat at night. «Buenos Aires Herald, Nov 14»
Peter Pan hits high notes in Witney musical show
Abdabs Youth and Community Theatre will stage three performances at the Langdale Hall on Friday and Sunday. The show is adapted from JM ... «Witney Gazette, Oct 14»
