Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./US) delirium tremens.

1932		T.S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes 30: You’ve had a cream of a nightmare dream and you’ve got the hoo-ha’s coming to you.
1952		W.R. Burnett Little Men, Big World 9: It’s not only the rain [...] and the sad and dirty city that lowers my blood pressure and makes me a prey to the hoo-hoos.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 565/2: hoo-jahs Delirum tremens. Aus. since ca. 1930.