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- noun Plural form of
hellraiser .
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Examples
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So perhaps there will be some extra mayhem in store when the local punk hellraisers storm the Velvet Lounge tonight.
Nightlife Agenda David Malitz 2010
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Where Talihina Sky scores is by following the Followills back to their roots: it's astonishing enough that these mumbling hellraisers grew up as the deeply believing scions of itinerant revivalist Christians, but when the camera is turned on their backwoods family and neighbours, the film strikes gold.
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But first local punk hellraisers the Points played and it got plenty unruly during their set.
Taking sides: What's the craziest concert you've seen? Click Track 2011
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Where Talihina Sky scores is by following the Followills back to their roots: it's astonishing enough that these mumbling hellraisers grew up as the deeply believing scions of itinerant revivalist Christians, but when the camera is turned on their backwoods family and neighbours, the film strikes gold.
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Pop has always loved a visit to the suburbs, whether in the sleazy undertow of Suede's eponymous debut album or the high-street hellraisers of Pet Shops Boys 'Suburbia.
Arcade Fire discover beauty within the darkness of The Suburbs 2010
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Local hellraisers Maybe, Baby open the show at the Velvet Lounge.
Nightlife Agenda 2010
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Smelling of holy-rolling Nashville hellraisers, cheap cocaine and hookers and dirty guitar riffs?
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In truth, he would settle for a new generation of hellraisers to dislodge the Democrats and the nation from its indifference to the devastation of mountaintop removal mining, which has left his state of West Virginia in economic and environmental ruin.
Jeff Biggers: Hechler's Wake Up Call to Greens and Liberals: Big Coal Denial Calls for Hellraisers 2009
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While Big Coal continues to bankroll the largest public relations campaign of "clean coal" denial in recent history, former US Representative and historian Ken Hechler has issued an urgent wake up call to Greens and liberal Democrats: Tragic lessons in history remind us that the coal crisis and its deniers call for more hellraisers, not compromise.
Jeff Biggers: Hechler's Wake Up Call to Greens and Liberals: Big Coal Denial Calls for Hellraisers 2009
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Now is the time for all good greens, rednecks, social entrepreneurs, hellraisers, Repower America and Al Gore to come to the aid of their fellow citizens in the Appalachian coalfields.
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