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To: RummyChick

I don’t know what ab dabs are

“He told her how science will be what solves the problem ‘not scowling and having screaming ab-dabs every five minutes’,”


2 posted on 09/30/2019 4:54:54 AM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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To: RummyChick

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7505819/Greta-Thunberg-accused-baby-boomers-betrayal-millennials-eco-friendly-parents.html


3 posted on 09/30/2019 4:56:21 AM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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“To give someone the screaming abdabs (or habdabs) is a British expression for inducing an attack of extreme anxiety or irritation in someone. It’s recorded in print from the middle 1940s.”

Found it here: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-scr1.htm

Makes perfect sense. She is a spoiled brat.


5 posted on 09/30/2019 4:58:54 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: RummyChick

The British version of screaming meemies


11 posted on 09/30/2019 5:01:19 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: RummyChick

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abdabs


30 posted on 09/30/2019 6:28:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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