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hairy
adjective- dangerous; scary (especially if thrilling) US, 1945
- We came out of that deal with more than sixty grand and Henry got at least as much, but it was a hairy one. — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 109, 1973
- I saved her from a hairy situation into which her “friend to man” attitude had cast her. — Nathan Heard, A Cold Fire Burning, p. 10, 1974
- [A] pudgy white kid immersed in a sea of blacks, eyes wide as [James] Brown tore the place up. “It was a little hairy,” he [Billy Joel] remembers, “but Brown blew me away.” — Jay Saporita, Pourin’ It All Out, p. 25, 1980
- In later years, my job has taken me to some hairy locales; not hairy in the Sandy Gall/John Pilger sense, as in Gaza Strip or Grozhny. But certainly as hairy as the urban West gets, such as the Reeperbahn, the Chicago Housing project of Cabrini Green or Moss Side. — Stuart Maconie, Cider with Roadies, p. 109, 2003
- bad, difficult, undesirable UK, 1848
A popular term in C19, resurrected in later C20 youth usage. - — Time, 3 October 1949
- — Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, p. 117, 1963
- — J. R. Friss, A Dictionary of Teenage Slang (Mt. Diablo High), 1964
- It got a little hairy at the end when we drove him to the bus, however. — Erich Segal, Love Story, p. 74, 1970
- It’s cool. I’ll handle the hairy ones. Most of the time they’re just trying to get your attention. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 155, 1978
- I mean it’s hairy–they got some pretty heavy ordnance, boy. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- It all got a bit hairy at school. They chucked me out. — Mary Hooper, (megan)2, p. 170, 1999
- in computing, complicated US
- — Guy L. Steele et al., The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 80, 1983
- good, impressive US
- In teen-age jargon, he is still “the hairiest” (the coolest, the greatest). — Look, p. 49, 24 November 1959
- — J. R. Friss, A Dictionary of Teenage Slang (Mt. Diablo High), 1964
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