ghost bump

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

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noun

"The weather turned so frigid Luke got ghost bumps."
"These were ghost bumps — the prickly bumps on my skin that often showed up when a ghost was about to appear."
"Her son even had goose bumps (or more accurately in this case, ghost bumps)."
"You might say they give us ghostbumps."

From ghost + bump, modelled after goosebump.

ghost bumps (plural) ghost-bump (alternative) ghostbump (alternative)

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