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HAIR-RAISER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hair-raiser mean?
• HAIR-RAISER (noun)
The noun HAIR-RAISER has 1 sense:
1. excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones
Familiarity information: HAIR-RAISER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
chiller; hair-raiser
Context example:
the movie was an old-fashioned hair-raiser
Hypernyms ("hair-raiser" is a kind of...):
excitation; excitement (something that agitates and arouses)
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