hell raiser

[hel-rey-zer]

hell-rais·er

[hel-rey-zer]
noun Informal.
a person who behaves in a rowdy, riotous manner, especially habitually.

Origin:
1910–15
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Hell raiser is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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and hell raiser
  1. n.
    a rowdy person; a hell-raising person. (Use caution with hell.) : Jimmy is turning out to be a real hell raiser. , A bunch of hell raisers kept me up late last night.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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