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Buttock-clenching

adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 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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