raising hell

1. 1.

   making trouble just for the fun of it

   Synonymshell raising

   Broaderaggression

Questions about raising hell

What does raising hell mean?

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

What is another word for raising hell?

Close synonyms include hell raising. 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 raising hell a common word?

raising hell 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.