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Definition of Have a fit
1. Verb. Get very angry and fly into a rage. "Spam makes me go ballistic"
Generic synonyms: Rage
Derivative terms: Blowup
Definition of Have a fit
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To experience an epileptic seizure. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To become suddenly enraged. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Have A Fit
Literary usage of Have a fit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1907)
""If I do not go," he thought, " Colonel G. will certainly have a fit. If I go in
any uniform other than that of his regiment he is very likely to have a fit ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1885)
"Another patient, trying to explain the feeling he had at the onset of a fit, put
it thus :—" If I were to have a fit, and see that fender, I should say, ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1862)
"In the Night son John have a fit. 14th. Towards morning he has another short fit.
15th. ... Something before day, son John have a fit & by 7 morn, have six. ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"What ! a girl used to fits on frights not have a fit for a month together, when
she might naturally expect, during «П that time, every next minute would be ..."
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