noun in circus and carnival usage, body lice US, 1981
(redirected from seam squirrels)
seam-squirrel
A louse that has infested clothing or linens. Typically used in the plural. No way am I staying in such a crappy motel! Their beds are probably crawling with seam-squirrels!Our uniforms were so thoroughly infested with seam-squirrels that there was nothing left to do but burn them.
seam-squirrels
n. lice. (see also pants rabbits. Contrived.) I got an itch. Must be seam-squirrels.