buttock-clenching

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buttock-clenching

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  1. informal Suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety. 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.

    Similar: butt-clenching, affreux, alarming, spine-tingling, appalling, awful, eldritch, buggish, buttock-clenching, dismayful, dreadful, fearful

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@misc{buttock_clenching_2026,
  title = {buttock-clenching},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buttock-clenching},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}