staggers noun2 •Any of various diseases of animals that affect the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs“Soon afther, some mischances begun to happen to the farmer's cattle; a horse tuk the staggers, a fine vale calf died o' the black-lig, an' some uv his sheep o' the rid wather[.]” — 1850 •staggers and jags, delirium tremens or extreme inebriation
