baby rabies
baby rabies noun: an urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
Noun
baby rabies (uncountable)
- An urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
- Some grandparents get baby rabies worse than some parents.2004 January 25, Terry Austin, “Re: BURKE HAS SUMMONED TERRY AUSTIN!!!”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet)
- I was absolutely shocked when I came down with “baby rabies” in my early 30's after 11 years of marriage.2008, Dawn, "Making the Childfree Choice after a Heartbreaking Choice", in Our Heartbreaking Choices: Forty-Six Women Share Their Stories of Interrupting a Much-Wanted Pregnancy (ed. Christie...
- Synonyms:
- baby fever
Synonyms of baby rabies
Questions about baby rabies
- What does baby rabies mean?
- Baby rabies means an urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
- What part of speech is baby rabies?
- Baby rabies is a noun.
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