Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the shakes.

1961		B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 27: I tell you, Jack me boy, it gave a man the Joe Blakes just to look at it.
1963		M. Anderson A River Rules My Life 198: My legs have got the ‘Joe Blakes’.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 51: He thrust out his skinny leghorn hands [...] ‘See [...] no more joe blakes’.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 134: Predictably, the after-effects of the grog are the subject of some colloquialising: the jimjams; the dts; the fantods; the shakes (joe blakes in rhyming slang).

2. (also joes, the) delirium tremens [= snakes n.].

1944		in A. Marshall These Are My People (1957) 143: You get the Joe Blakes bad after a few weeks [drinking].
1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxv 6/3: joe blakes: Shakes, horrors, rats, delirium tremens.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 55: She sat with him through the horrors and the joes.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 89: Other examples of this process include: [...] joe blake snake and joe blakes shakes, usually those induced by excess consumption of alcohol and its after-effects.
2002		Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 Joe Blakes: the shakes, the D.T.s.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.