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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
goose pimples
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I got goose pimples when the trumpets sounded and you all marched in.
▪ I was six years old - it gave me goose pimples.
▪ Some one screamed, a high shrill piercing noise that caused her to break out in goose pimples.
▪ That set our teeth on edge and bring our goose pimples rising like porpoises after mackerel.
▪ There were goose pimples on her arm.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
goose pimples

gooseflesh \gooseflesh\ n. A peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear, in which the hair follicles become erect and form bumps on the skin; -- called also goose skin, goose pimples, goose bumps.

Syn: goose bumps, goose pimples, goose skin.

goose pimples

goose pimples \goose pimples\ n. Same as gooseflesh.

Wiktionary
goose pimples

n. (plural of goose pimple English)

Usage examples of "goose pimples".

Now hair rose on the back of his head, while goose pimples formed on his arms.

Of course we didn't believe it, but last night we went to a picnic at the Old Mine Campground, and we saw it tool Honestly, we're still both lumpy with goose pimples.

Beside him Julia stood motionless, unaffected by the cold breeze that sent goose pimples down Jones's arm, seemingly unaware of his distraught and uncertain mood.