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screaming meemies

n. (screaming meemie English)

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screaming meemies

n. extreme nervousness [syn: jitters, heebie-jeebies]

Usage examples of "screaming meemies".

That system had been a nightmare from the word go, but it was the closest analogue to the Screaming Meemies, so the software had been assumed to be similar.

The night was murmurous with the voices of girls who threw their youth away and got the screaming meemies at three or four a.

Then Fogarty, who had been standing nearby and yelling at Henry for almost two minutes (while the other inmates stood in their rows, hoes grasped in their hands like comic phalluses, their expressions not exactly interested but almost, yes, almost thoughtful, as if they understood that this was all a part of the mystery that had put them here, that Henry Bowers's sudden attack of the screaming meemies in West Garden was interesting in some more than technical way), got tired of shouting and gave Henry a real blast with his quarters, and Henry went down like a ton of bricks, the voice of the clown following him down into that terrible whirlpool of darkness, chanting over and over again: Kill them all, Henry, kill them all, kill them all, kill them all.

I might have the screaming meemies forever from just this one incident, but if I did it again, it was over.

They no longer kept him without the drug for forty-eight hours before testing him, although whether that was because they felt he couldn't go that long without getting the screaming meemies or because they were just going through the motions of testing, he didn't know.

With a great effort I forced down the screaming meemies that threatened to overwhelm me, unlocked my knees and lurched forward.