goose pimples
plural noun
goose-pimply
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a word derived from
goose pimples.
Example Sentences
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He takes all this and runs with it, producing a taut, goose-pimply thriller that earns its jump-out-of-your-seat moments and only occasionally strains its own logic - and then, who really cares?
From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 2018
"It makes me feel goose-pimply all over… I don't know where I am or who I am, or what I'm doing."
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2015
The second episode actually ends on a transcendent, goose-pimply musical note, even though the word being intoned by the chorus is, um, “um.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2013
I get goose-pimply all over, and I come to ’em.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2011
The water and the weather are both uncomfortably chilly, and my assistant emerges from the second stream with chattering teeth and goose-pimply flesh.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
