Buttock-clenching
adj, slang
adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety. informal
"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."
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More examples"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."