Hair-on-fire

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

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"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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