buttock-clenching
English
Adjective
buttock-clenching (comparative more buttock-clenching, superlative most buttock-clenching)
- (informal) frightening; causing anxiety
- Synonym: (North America) butt-clenching
- 2012, Michela Wrong, I Didn’t Do It For You (page 19)
- 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.
- 2019, John Aston, Driven
- 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.