Definition of Have kittens

1. Verb. Get very angry and fly into a rage. "Spam makes me go ballistic"


Definition of Have kittens

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To become extremely upset. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Have Kittens

have had one's chips
have had one's day
have in mind
have it
have it away
have it both ways
have it coming
have it easy
have it going on
have it in for
have it large
have it made
have it your way
have kittens (current term)
have mercy
have more chins than a Chinese phone book
have not
have nots
have on
have one's cake and eat it too
have one's ducks in a row
have one's ears lowered
have one's eye on
have one's finger on the pulse
have one's fingers in many pies
have one's hand out
have one's hands full
have one's hands tied

Literary usage of Have kittens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1917)
"The law recognizes that it is proper and useful to keep cata, and how is that to be done if the cuts are not to have kittens? Perhaps the dictum of Farwell, ..."

2. The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld by Lucy Aikin, Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (1826)
"It is only when you have kittens yourself, that you will be able to appreciate the cares of a mother. How unruly have you ,been when I wanted to wash your ..."

3. Things by Their Right Names, and Other Stories, Fables, and Moral Pieces, in by Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1840)
"It is only when you have kittens yourself, that you will be able to appreciate the cares of a mother. How unruly have you been, when I wanted to wash your ..."

4. The Monthly Religious Magazine (1865)
"If the cat knows she is to have kittens, and has, I mean, a clear idea of kittens and kitten- hood, she might as easily pursue a vast many other trains of ..."

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