subs. phr. (common).—Delirium tremens. For synonyms, see JIM-JAMS. Also THE D. T. = Daily Telegraph.

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  1864.  W. S. HAYWARD, The Soiled Dove, p. 265. I wish to God I could get D. T., and then I should go mad and cut my throat, or pitch myself out of the window.

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  1868.  Public Opinion, 1 Aug. Frightful diseases, one of the commonest of which is jocularly spoken of by tipplers as D. T.

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  1880.  G. R. SIMS, Ballads of Babylon (Beauty and the Beast).

        And had sold her child to a titled churl
  Who had just got round from a bad D. T.

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  1883.  Globe, 7 July, p. 1, col. 5. One of the daily papers, which boasts the largest circulation in the world, is familiar to all as the D.T.

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  1887.  PAYN, Glow-worm Tales, vol. i., p. 209. As certain as D.T. is the end of drinking.

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