hell-raising
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8.4
- noun
- /hɛlˈreɪzɪŋ/
- Informal
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alboroto
- I'm talking about a hell-raising time.
- drinking and hell-raising
Examples
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Did a little hell-raising when he was a kid, but nothing serious.
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And then there was the matter of her being the daughter of an Episcopal preacher and of failing to behave like the hard-drinking, hell-raising offspring of Episcopal clergymen we all knew.
Fiction book (1998) -
And all our kids know that I was a hell raising wild motherfucker.
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I did my fair share of hell-raising.
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Despite their hell-raising, it seems they did not lack for charm.
Academic text (2003) -
Sometimes I pretend I'm some goody-two-shoe prom queen... and then I can change my on-line name and become a hell-raising "B" girl.
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Last Tuesday night, a handful of drunk students, mad about the re-election of President Barack Obama, took to a bout of hell-raising.
Blog text (31) -
Thanks to his parents, he had enrolled in the Russian Military Academy in St. Petersburg, known then as Leningrad, but found he had no love of the military, only for partying, smoking, drinking, and hell-raising, the wilder the better.
Fiction book (2002) -
During college, we had some unforgettable nights filled with hell-raising and laughter.
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Nate often reminisces about his wild youth, which was full of hell-raising adventures.
Synonyms
715
6.1
Loud, wild trouble that causes disorder
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7.6
Fun, slightly naughty behavior that can cause trouble at parties
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8.8
Behaviour that harms people or tricks them, sometimes as a prank
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3.9
Causing problems for others, often on purpose
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4.6
Playful actions that cause small harmless trouble for fun
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6.0
The act of causing trouble or harm to others on purpose
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7.9
Playful mischief that teases or annoys other people
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9.7
Bad behavior meant to annoy or hurt people
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8.1
Playful or dishonest behavior that tricks people
The act of behaving in a naughty, playful way
Loud, rude actions that cause trouble for other people
Antonyms
How Rowdy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hell-raising comes from the parts raise ('to lift') and hell, the idea of chaos and trouble, so picture someone 'raising hell' by making a loud, wild scene and letting chaos loose. So a hell-raising person is rowdy and likes to cause trouble or excitement.