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French fits en · NOUN
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(US, plural, plural-only, slang) Delirium tremens.
‘We've got a file on what we call the barred window boys, Doctor. Places where you can't jump out of when the French fits take over.’
1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 144:‘I was having the French fits coming out of it.’
1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 1949, page 148: