Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

buttock-clenching

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English

Syllables: but-tock---clench-ing
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety.

Informal

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."

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more buttock-clenching (comparative) most buttock-clenching (superlative)

Synonyms

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Questions

What does buttock-clenching mean?: Suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety.

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