Joe Blakes
See also: joe blakes
English
Noun
- (Australia, rhyming slang) The shakes; delirium tremens.
- 1998, Keith B. Saunders, Myall Road, page 91:
- I've had enough, mate. A bloody man is starting to get the Joe Blakes and the dry retches and if a man keeps this up I'm sure to finish in the rat house with the DTs at this rate.
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