a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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.
mod. [of women] ugly. : Why do I always end up with a scary woman?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Everybody was wearing bells around their necks-bells to scare away the bigscary bears out there.
Someone will come up with a way to make driving these cars an attractive choice instead of a scary or unreachable choice.
For my generation-ten years ago when this came out-it was really scary.
If you use mysterious terms and sound sincere, physics can be scary.
There is something astonishingly scary about lightning fast global broadcast communication in the hands of virtually anyone.
Scary things could still be imagined to take place in those woods.
It must have been a real scary one near the epicenter.
It was kind of scary hearing reports of him not feeling well during the show.
Which is in and of itself pretty scary, because if the news were good, you can be pretty sure that they'd share it.
For one thing, it's probably scary to actually be the guy pulling the monetary trigger.