CONNIPTION
conniption
Noun
- A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.
- When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption.
- ...threatened by the conniptions gripping Wall Street (Businessweek Oct.20, 2008)
- A fit of laughing; convulsion.
- The joke was not that funny, but he went into conniptions laughing.
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