STAGGERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does staggers mean? 

• STAGGERS (noun)
  The noun STAGGERS has 1 sense:

1. a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling

  Familiarity information: STAGGERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAGGERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

blind staggers; staggers

Hypernyms ("staggers" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

 Context examples 

The stranger-man is fifty yards away, all alone in the white snow. He falls and crawls, staggers, and falls and crawls again. He is like an animal that is sore wounded and trying to run from the hunter. By and by he crawls on hands and knees. He no longer stands up.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)