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Definition of hellraiser in English: hellraisernounˈhɛlreɪzə A person who causes trouble by drinking, being violent, or otherwise behaving outrageously. （因喝酒，野蛮行径，或别的肆无忌惮的行为）惹是生非的人 Example sentencesExamples - A fearless hellraiser, he died in 1977 in a skiing accident in Switzerland.
- The Oscar-winning actor became firm friends with the Irish hellraiser after they began working together on the big-screen version of ‘Miami Vice’.
- Here's a quick recap of the most celebrated male hellraisers of recent years.
- New Zealand's greatest comic actor, Brian Sergent, is about to take on the character of the legendary Brian Bell - a hellraiser, possibly a genius, kindly fellow and terrible old bastard who was ‘in a class of his own’.
- The former hellraiser, who claims to have been clean for two years, said he realised he was in trouble when he stopped for a ‘disgusting’ burger, after a 48 hour binge, and was convinced he would die of a heart attack..
- Last year, Waylon Jennings, former hellraiser and founder of the 70s country outlaw movement, took him aside for a quiet word about his recreational habits.
- AC/DC, MC5 and the Dead Kennedys are all standard texts for guitar-toting hellraisers.
- The Hollywood hellraiser was said to be furious over the arrest and was heard telling police: ‘This is bullsh * t!’
- His obituaries rightly said a hole has been left in the Commons, that he was a first-class hellraiser and an incomparable character.
- Yet another chapter has been opened in the life of Pete Townshend, whose past as a hellraiser has seen him struggle with addiction to drink and drugs.
- Meanwhile, it has emerged that wild rocker Pete may have a reputation as a hellraiser these days but was a teacher's pet at school.
- The grizzled hellraiser wants a share of the merchandising profits instead of a flat fee, presumably to spend on more booze.
- While my friends insist that I should be dating sophisticated thirty-something women with the aim of settling down, I find myself attracted to wild, volatile hellraisers.
- A former drug addict and reformed hellraiser, he's on the comeback trail with a sickly song that gradually starts to work its way up the charts.
- Chapman couldn't help but notice that the brothers were remarkably well-behaved, contrary to their reputation for being rock 'n' roll hellraisers.
- A notorious boozer and hellraiser, the guy is particularly well known for persuading his endless series of one-nighters to ‘slip into something comfortable.’
- His reputation as a hellraiser and a big drinker was coming to dominate and even overshadow his work.
- His off-field sins, such as they are, are prosaic by the standards of a born hellraiser - typical teenage stuff.
- Hunter S. Thompson was a consummate hellraiser and we loved him for it.
- Johnny and the Poorboys are Keighley's popular hellraisers of Irish, country and rock ‘n’ roll music.
Derivativesnoun & adjective He displays a hedonism and love of the good life (as he sees it) that mirrors the promiscuous and hellraising lifestyle Liam had. Example sentencesExamples - While the hellraising days of alcohol-fuelled larrikinism and broken marriages might be behind him, at 70 he's on the road more often than not.
- His own career in apparently terminal decline due to a reputation as a prima donna and serial problems with narcotics addiction, the hellraising actor has apparently not spoken to his sister in years.
- He was not afraid to mix it up, running from hellraising R&B to slow, down-and-dirty Chicago blues.
- The rocker, famed for his hellraising and womanising ways, says he has had enough of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and can't wait to finish his current tour so he can tend to his fish.
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