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spine-tingling

spine-tingling adjective: scary, exciting or exhilarating.

Adjective

spine-tingling (comparative more spine-tingling, superlative most spine-tingling)

  1. (idiomatic) Scary, exciting or exhilarating.
    • Inside the ground, they saw parachutists land on the Nursery Ground before the spine-tingling spectacle of the national anthems.2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London

Forms of spine-tingling

comparativemore spine-tingling
superlativemost spine-tingling

Questions about spine-tingling

What does spine-tingling mean?
Spine-tingling means scary, exciting or exhilarating.
What part of speech is spine-tingling?
Spine-tingling is an adjective.

Words near spine-tingling in the dictionary

  1. spine-chilling
  2. spine-tailed swift
  3. spine-tailed swifts
  4. spine-tingler
  5. spine-tinglers
  6. spine-tingling
  7. spineback
  8. spinebacks
  9. spinebill
  10. spinebills
  11. spineboard

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