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Jimjam
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- 1 Crazy; insane or befuddled. not-comparable
"Insurancewise, the papers tell of a new hat-passer started in Chicago to demonstrate that Dr. Keeley's "cured" jimjam patients, whom regular companies look askance at, are as safe risks as sober men ;"
- 1 Attributive form of jimjams (“pajamas”). attributive, countable, form-of, uncountable
"As I sat and pushed down my jimjam pants, Sean came in to tuck me in."
- 2 Placeholder word for a thing or person nonspecific, unknown or forgotten; thingamabob. countable, uncountable
"Ye should have done well to shew us with which foot the pope did set on the crown upon Henry's head, the right or the left, standing, sitting, leaning, or lying, barefooted and using the help of his great toe or shod, whether he had some jimjam made for him to take it up, hold it, and put it on handsomely, or conveyed it on by a vice, or how it was done."
- 3 Nonsense; rigmarole. countable, uncountable
"A feller that sees a lot o' jimjam visions ahead never will buck down to real life here, an' he'll never lay up a dollar or own a foot of land."
- 4 Chaotic activity; uproar; craziness. countable, uncountable
"The whole town's in a positive jimjam."
- 1 To cram together in a jumbled fashion.
"And because of the jumbled layout of the city—old prefabs mingling with equally utilitarian new construction and makeshift hovels jimjammed in every which way—an agile person who could jump as well as she could would be able to travel a good distance going from roof to roof."
- 2 To befuddle or stupefy.
"I mean my nerves were totally jimjammed ... I was up shit creek, gents!"
- 3 To dance ecstatically.
"Lights blazed down, but not too strongly, so that the dancers could drift along or jimjam in ecstatic rhythm, in a simulacrum of private worlds."
- 4 To copulate. euphemistic
"It didn't work until she spiked his orange juice with a triple dose of street acid: she sent three different girls up that day, and he fucked, sucked, and orifically jimjammed his little brains loose."
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