Usually means: Audacity, often exceeding normal bounds.
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  1. chutzpah: Merriam-Webster
  2. chutzpah: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chutzpah: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chutzpah: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chutzpah: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chutzpah, chutzpah: Wordnik
  7. chutzpah: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chutzpah: Wiktionary
  9. chutzpah: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chutzpah: Dictionary.com
  11. chutzpah: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. chutzpah: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Chutzpah (album), Chutzpah (disambiguation), Chutzpah: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  15. chutzpah: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. chutzpah: FreeDictionary.org
  17. chutzpah: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. chutzpah: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. chutzpah: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. chutzpah: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. chutzpah, chutzpah: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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▸ noun:  (informal) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.

Similar:
audacity, hutzpa, audaciousness, hutzpah, assurance, face, hardihood, temerity, boldness, effrontery, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty

Types:
gall, nerve, audacity, nervelessness, nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, more...

Adjectives:
sheer, more, such, little, enough, considerable, yiddish, characteristic, incredible, real, pure

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Similar:
audacity, hutzpa, audaciousness, hutzpah, assurance, face, hardihood, temerity, boldness, effrontery, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty

Types:
gall, nerve, audacity, nervelessness, nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, more...

Adjectives:
sheer, more, such, little, enough, considerable, yiddish, characteristic, incredible, real, pure

Colors:
    gold,     crimson,     electric blue,     fiery red,     lime green, more...



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