Meaning of buttock-clenching | Babel Free
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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