0 the hairs on the back of some animals, or the feathers on the back of the neck of some birds, that rise when the animal or bird is frightened or about to fight -- （某些动物、鸟受惊吓或临战时会竖起的）颈背部毛，颈羽
On all those matters our hackles rise for the same reason.
He said that when the word "landlord" was mentioned it immediately put his hackles up.
As was expressed several times in another place, the word "race" is an emotive word: the kind of word that makes people's hackles rise.
I think that only one of them may raise political hackles.
We see the hackles rise and resistance grow just because of the name.
I do not wish to raise political hackles.
One would need to be careful about this question of hunting, particularly hunting deer with dogs, because it will raise hackles in certain places.
He managed to make some good suggestions without raising any political hackles on my part.
