Hackle in a sentence as a noun

Does all of this crazy funding raise anyone else's hackles?

It would be a little weird if anything in this particular post got your hackles up.

It really got my hackles up, I involuntarily scowled and I said I pay cash so I won't have to tell you my name.

The title raised my hackles as well, but it turned out to be a fun, un-dogmatic read with nothing to do with the editor wars.

Hackle in a sentence as a verb

I feel like my particular market, while way better addressed by calls than Adword ads, already has its hackles raised on the prospect of being linked to a blog.

Considering the possibility of Jobs showing deference certainly raises my hackles.

The fact that liberal education needs to refer to something as diffuse and difficult to value as "personal development" should raise hackles in an era when a college education costs almost as much as a house.

Hackle definitions

noun

long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants

verb

comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax"

See also: heckle hatchel