Wiktionary
nail-biter
n. (alternative spelling of nail biter English)
Usage examples of "nail-biter".
Pentagon-and-Kremlin countdowns, terrorist or rogue-leader nail-biters, love and pain in the postapocalyptic tundra.
It had been an extra-innings nail-biter that the home team had managed to pull out of the fire at the last moment, and the boys were pretty liquored up, so they were feeling good about baseball in general and themselves in particular.
The Oval Office's populated by wimps and nail-biters too scared of the Red Bear to make a move.