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A state of nervous unease, often before a performance or important event.
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- get the jitters
- preperformance jitters
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She got the jitters before the audition.
The first question settled his jitters.
He blamed the delay for his jitters.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Plural-form noun; normally used with the. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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