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Example sentences from the Web for hacklesIt is the connection of triclosan to dioxin that has appropriately raised the hackles of so many. Antibacterial Soap’s Deadly Secret|Kent Sepkowitz|May 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST But the conditions on the cash raised some hackles in Pakistan. What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Pakistan?|David A. Graham|May 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST The fat fee is raising some hackles, but the head of the nonprofit she helped tells Shushannah Walshe she was worth the money. Bristol Palin's Outrageous Payday|Shushannah Walshe|April 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST The hackles do not differ much in the various breeds, but are short and stiff in Malays, and absent in Hennies. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.|Charles Darwin
His stern was still erect, bladelike, his hackles almost as stiff as before. Hackles for the dry fly must be stiff with very little or no web. How to Tie Flies|E. C. Gregg Slasher rumbled deep in his throat, his hackles stiff and his eyes balls of green fire. Beyond the Black River|Robert E. Howard It was an awful sound and it made the hackles stand upright on Hultax's bull-neck. Quest of the Golden Ape|Ivar Jorgensen
pl nthe hairs on the back of the neck and the back of a dog, cat, etc, which rise when the animal is angry or afraid anger or resentment (esp in the phrases get one's hackles up, make one's hackles rise) Words nearby hackleshacking, hacking jacket, hackle, hackleback, hackle fly, hackles, hackly, hackman, hackmatack, hackney, hackney coach Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with hackles
see raise someone's hackles. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to hacklessplinter, chop, nick, crack, hack, whack, cleave, cube, divide, mince, slash, bathe, scrub, clear up, soak, dredge, spruce up, mop, flush, pick up |