buttock-clenching
buttock-clenching adjective: suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety.
Adjective
buttock-clenching (comparative more buttock-clenching, superlative most buttock-clenching)
- Suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety.
- At the end of a buttock-clenching trip, we landed to find Eritrean helicopters crouched on the tarmac of an airport that had just been bombed by Ethiopian jets.2012, Michela Wrong, I Didn’t Do It For You, page 19
- I would zoom through the uphill left-hander at Coppice at a buttock-clenching 90mph (145km/h) in fourth, but on the climb up to Charlies the revs would fall away and third was needed just to maintain speed up the hill.2019, John Aston, Driven
- Synonyms:
- butt-clenching, affreux, alarming, spine-tingling, appalling, awful, eldritch, buggish, dismayful, dreadful
Synonyms of buttock-clenching
Forms of buttock-clenching
| comparative | more buttock-clenching |
|---|---|
| superlative | most buttock-clenching |
Questions about buttock-clenching
- What does buttock-clenching mean?
- Buttock-clenching means suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety.
- What part of speech is buttock-clenching?
- Buttock-clenching is an adjective.
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