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goose bumps
(redirected from goose pimples)

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*goose bumps and *goose pimples
Fig. a prickly feeling related to having bumps on one's skin due to fear, excitement, or cold. (*Typically: get ~ have ~ give someone ∼.) When I hear that old song, I get goose bumps. I never have goose pimples, but my teeth chatter when it's cold.
See also: bump, goose


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Within seconds of the speech starting I found I had goose pimples.
Within seconds of the speech starting I found I had goose pimples.
Who can sing you stories that give goose pimples with a deep mystery and uncontrollable chuckles with their sweet humour that suddenly ignites you with the kind of love you thought had blown away like ashes in a world turned to cynical dust?
 
 
 
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