hackles

IPA: hˈækʌɫz

Root Word: Hackles

Examples of "hackles" in Sentences

'hackles' up, and waiting for the enemy with an ominous growl.
Long, thin hackles are best: They move easily in the water and don't impede your casting.
Now, however, the statue is raising hackles among the city's business and financial establishment.
Like I said, that was just my impression at the time and it didn't raise any of my "hackles," or "heckles."
Lots of times, gals get in hackles about voluptuous panty-flashing video game vixens and the game camera's decadent worship of their rendered flesh.
And in twenty minutes, a long and lanky 80 pound gray wolf with black hackles stepped out of the timber below, looking for the source of the calling.
Back in 1999 when Thomas Keller's "French Laundry Cookbook" came out with fiendishly difficult recipes, he raised hackles by asserting that cooking is not about shortcuts.
What really raises Madison Avenue’s hackles is the potential for Google to become Universal Advertising Inc.: a sprawling presence that brokers highly targeted ads across all media.
Second, Chinese official aid to unsavory governments in order to lubricate OFDI contracts raises governance and humanitarian concerns and, therefore, hackles among developed country governments.
What raises my hackles about this post -- and, mind you, my hackles are my responsibility, not yours -- is its (wholly unintentional) echo of part of the bizarrely illogical conception of the Jews by Christian propagandists.