wobbles

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Noun

wobbles pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, chiefly Australia) Unsteadiness on one's feet, wheels, etc.
    • 2022 February 16, “Luke's wheeling his way to raising greater A-T awareness”, in NDIS:
      "We thought everything was alright, then when Luke started to walk we noticed he got the wobbles, and they never left, eight months later he was diagnosed with A-T," she said.
  2. (informal, chiefly Australia) Nervousness which prevents someone from performing properly.
    Synonym: yips
    • 2006, Roland Perry, The Ashes: A Celebration, Random House (Australia), →ISBN:
      England had the wobbles at 4 for 109 and a lead of 115.
    • 2022 June 22, Guy Rundle, “The right is coming apart — and Labor needs to step up and help it self-destruct”, in Crikey:
      You'd have to be impressed with the way the right is stuffing up the post-election transition into opposition. It had the wobbles from the start, electing Peter Dutton as its leader and promptly trying to soften his image.

Noun

wobbles

  1. plural of wobble

Verb

wobbles

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wobble