yips
n.— «Carl Hubbell says he got the “yips” so bad during his recent slump that he was walking into closed doors.» —“Tales in Tidbits” by Bill Braucher in New York Hammond Times (Ind.) July 3, 1937. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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