| Main Entry: | fear factor |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | the extent to which a person's fear keeps them from doing something; any feeling of fear that prevents an action |
| Example: | Recession marketing: avoiding the fear factor. |
| Etymology: | 1914 |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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