"screaming abdabs" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1959, Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, page 34",
          "text": "...not noticing the sud smells anymore or belts over my head that gave me the screaming ab-dabs when I first came in the factory at fifteen...",
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          "text": "1971, New Scientist, page 80, by the EBSCO Publishing Firm,\nMeanwhile, down the road a piece, another British firm has had an attack of the abdabs."
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          "ref": "1986, Anthony Burgess, The Pianoplayers, page 201",
          "text": "... Robert played all the time on his dummy keyboard and it drove Edna near mad, gave her the screaming abdabs as she put it.",
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          "ref": "2003, Marian Babson, The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog",
          "text": "‘This place doesn't ‘aif give me the screaming ‘abdabs.’ ‘And how!’ I agreed. All those small creatures that had once vibrated with life, now frozen ...",
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          "ref": "2004, Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic",
          "text": "It's a nice night, and I’da darned sight rather take a walk out than see you work yourself into a fit of the screaming abdabs. I don't blame you, ...",
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        "A state of extreme nervousness."
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        "(British, slang) A state of extreme nervousness."
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