hell raising

1. 1.

   making trouble just for the fun of it

   Synonymsraising hell

   Broaderaggression

Questions about hell raising

What does hell raising mean?

hell raising means "making trouble just for the fun of it".

What is another word for hell raising?

Close synonyms include raising hell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hell raising a common word?

hell raising is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.