Usually means: Anxious suspense, waiting nervously.
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  1. tenterhooks: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tenterhooks: Merriam-Webster
  3. tenterhooks: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tenterhooks: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tenterhooks, tenterhooks: Wordnik
  6. tenterhooks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tenterhooks: Wiktionary
  8. tenterhooks: Dictionary.com
  9. Tenterhooks (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Tenterhooks: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. Tenterhooks: The Word Detective
  12. tenterhooks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Tenterhooks: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tenterhooks: Idioms

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  1. Tenterhooks: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  the third album by the American musician Chris Mars, released in 1995.

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