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pucker factor
noun
the degree of fear or anxiety US, 1982
From the image of the sphincter tightening in a frightening situation.- My “pucker factor” went back to normal. — Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Technical Review, p. 175, 1957
- I was really frightened. In the Marine Corps, they have what they call the Pucker Factor. They joke about it. You get so scared that your asshole puckers. — Mark Barker, Nam, p. 40, 1981
- — Maledicta, p. 255, Summer/Winter 1982: ‘Viet-Speak’
- His eyes are glued to the tube in Saudi Arabia, watchful of any sinister dots that tells him a Scud is on its way and it’s time to neutralize it by launching a Patriot missile. Anxieties, which he calls “the pucker factor,” are high. — USA Today, 1 February 1991
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