[usuallybeforenoun] making you feel very excited or anxious because you do not know what is going to happen:
a nail-biting finish * It's been a nail-biting couple of weeks waiting for my results.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is nail-biting a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, nail-biting is tagged as adjective.
Does nail-biting appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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