Hair-on-fire
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Impassioned; eager; wild; crazy; rage-filled; frantic. idiomatic, not-comparable
"Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking."
Example
More examples"Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking."
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