shakes

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short, quick movements from side to side that your body makes because you are ill, are frightened, or have drunk too much alcohol:

I watched her hands as she prepared coffee and she definitely had the shakes.

I sometimes get the shakes if I haven't eaten breakfast.

She was put on medication to stop the shakes.

Just before I went on stage I got a terrible case of the shakes.

Did you see his hands? He had the shakes.

With the help of drugs she can control the shakes.