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hair-raiser

[ hair-rey-zer ]

noun

  1. a story, experience, etc., that is terrifying or thrilling.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hair-raiser1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

“We Used to Live Here” isn’t your mother’s haunted house story; it’s a modern hair-raiser that pulses with uncertainty and uneasiness.

Here, complications from untreated mental illness drive the unreliable narrator trope for a swirly, tangled hair-raiser.

The Irish writer Tana French, no slouch at transfixing and scaring readers, may have spoken for us all when she said of this expert hair-raiser: “It creeped the holy bejasus out of me.”

They had, to a minute, the time of the start from Chicago, and hinted broadly that the schedule was a hair-raiser; something to make previous very fast records previous very slow records.

The play is certainly a moral hair-raiser, and the stuffing is knocked out of the decalogue at every turn.

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