Buttock-clenching
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Buttock-clenching is an adjective meaning (informal) Suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety.
Meaning
(informal) Suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety.
Example Sentences
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.
I would zoom through the uphill left-hander at Coppice at a buttock-clenching 90mph (145km/h) in fourth, but on the climb up to Charlies the revs would fall away and third was needed just to maintain speed up the hill.
Synonyms for buttock-clenching
Depending on context, synonyms include butt-clenching, affreux, alarming, spine-tingling, appalling, eldritch.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include alarming, knee-trembling, soul-shaking, panic, troubling, bloodcurdling.
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