hair-raiser
- n excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones
the movie was an old-fashioned hair-raiser
- Zane Grey has contributed another hair-raiser, in which a sand storm is a vast feature.
- The real hair-raiser is a statue of the Virgin Mary in the village of Maria, a winding 15-km drive through the mountains from the main port of Larena.
- He edited, expounded, translated the plays of Henrik Ibsen; himself wrote The Green Goddess, suave hair-raiser played by George Arliss in 1920.