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Definition of Hair-raiser
1. Noun. Excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones. "The movie was an old-fashioned hair-raiser"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hair-raiser
Literary usage of Hair-raiser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stevens Indicator by Stevens Institute of Technology (1884)
"We made a " hair raiser" trip that time. The " gore stiffeners " are beyond ...
Here's the "hair raiser." The first thing to do was to run down Barclay ..."
2. The Scrap Book (1906)
"The play is certainly a moral hair-raiser, and the stuffing is knocked out of
the decalogue at every turn. . Mrs. Ahing, the leading lady, who keeps her ..."
3. My Life in Prison by Donald Lowrie (1912)
"Now we'll have the hair-raiser. But keep one thing in your mind. I didn't know
a thing about all this at the time—not a solitary thing. ..."
4. "Where the Sportsman Loves to Linger.": A Narrative of the Most Popular by Gerrit Smith Stanton (1905)
"... and the lightnin}: was a hair-raiser. Through it all the faithful guides stood
their ground, pole in hand, guiding us safely through the treacherous ..."
5. The Belle Islers: A Novel by Wallace Goldsmith, Richard Brinsley pseud Newman (1908)
"... but it was worse than that, because they turned on Charlie Taggart with his
star piece, which was a hair-raiser of the worst kind; and this was how ..."
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