hackles

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.

Archive 2008-02-01 SVGL 2008

Long, thin hackles are best: They move easily in the water and don't impede your casting.

Field & Stream Tip: How to Tie a Bucktail Plug 2007

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.

Google Scared of Microsoft? Increases Homepage Text by 33% to Address Bing 2007

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.

The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006

Like I said, that was just my impression at the time and it didn't raise any of my "hackles," or "heckles."

Cesc Fábregas risking his and Arsenal's reputation with petty battles | Dominic Fifield 2011

'hackles' up, and waiting for the enemy with an ominous growl.

The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899

Now, however, the statue is raising hackles among the city's business and financial establishment.

At Milan's Bourse, Finger Pointing Has Business Leaders Up in Arms Christina Passariello 2011

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.

Modernism on a Fork Moira Hodgson 2011

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.

StephenGoldsmith: FDI with Chinese Characteristics Stephen 2010

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.

Special Report: Regular F&S.com Poster Takes Wolf in Idaho 2009