hair-raiser

noun

hair-rais·​er ˈher-ˌrā-zər How to pronounce hair-raiser (audio)

Examples of hair-raiser in a Sentence

since they had been dating for five years, her answer to his proposal wasn't exactly a hair-raiser
Recent Examples on the Web And the Halloween-eve hair-raiser adds a cackling skeleton to a horror arcade of ghoulish news for EVs. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hair-raiser was in 1897

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“Hair-raiser.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hair-raiser. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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