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RAISING HELL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does raising hell mean?
• RAISING HELL (noun)
The noun RAISING HELL has 1 sense:
1. making trouble just for the fun of it
Familiarity information: RAISING HELL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Making trouble just for the fun of it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
hell raising; raising hell
Hypernyms ("raising hell" is a kind of...):
aggression (deliberately unfriendly behavior)
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