Alternative form of curl someone's hair

(idiomatic) To frighten, dismay, or excite someone thoroughly. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see curl, someone's, hair.

(education) The courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational, prerequisite, or mandatory, as opposed to the elective, secondary, or variable components of a program.

Exciting, astonishing, frightening, or horrifying.

Alternative form of hair-curling

The medical treatment for an illness produces a worse net result than the illness does (or threatens a non-negligible risk of doing so), especially via adverse effects.

A kitchen tool designed to produce decorative butter shapes for use in food decoration.

plural of curb bit

present participle of curl up

(medicine) the electric current due to an injury potential