Joe Blakes

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See also: joe blakes

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Noun

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Joe Blakes

  1. plural of Joe Blake

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Joe Blakes pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, rhyming slang) The shakes; delirium tremens.
    • 1998, Keith B. Saunders, Myall Road, page 91:
      I've had enough, mate. A bloody man is starting to get the Joe Blakes and the dry retches and if a man keeps this up I'm sure to finish in the rat house with the DTs at this rate.