"have kittens" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-have kittens.ogg [Australia] Forms: has kittens [present, singular, third-person], having kittens [participle, present], had kittens [participle, past], had kittens [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|have<has,,had> kittens}} have kittens (third-person singular simple present has kittens, present participle having kittens, simple past and past participle had kittens)
  1. (informal) To become extremely upset. Tags: informal Categories (lifeform): Cats Translations (to become extremely upset): een toeval krijgen (Dutch), brjálast (Icelandic), trompast (Icelandic), verða brjálaður (Icelandic), dobiti mlade [idiomatic] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-have_kittens-en-verb-gy0LU1aG Disambiguation of Cats: 41 24 35 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 40 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 39 8 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 63 27 10 Disambiguation of 'to become extremely upset': 97 1 2
  2. (informal) To be in a state of frantic nervousness. Tags: informal Categories (lifeform): Cats
    Sense id: en-have_kittens-en-verb-lCjEgwiM Disambiguation of Cats: 41 24 35
  3. (literal) Usually of a female cat, to give birth to kittens. Categories (lifeform): Cats Related terms: have a cow
    Sense id: en-have_kittens-en-verb-9-UPIT74 Disambiguation of Cats: 41 24 35

Inflected forms

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