nerverack

plural nerveracks

1. alternativeAlternative form of nerve rack.

   In figuring up the cost of doing business, how much should dealers allow for nerverack?

   1917, Coal and Coal Trade Journal - Volume 48, Issue 1, page 87

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   No doubt in most of such cases the physician to secure repose and rest from the boneache and nerverack has taken a small hypodermic with a feeling of perfect indifference as to danger.

   1902, Journal of the American Medical Association

   Wonder at the nerverack experienced by a director who, in addition to a multitude of technical demands and production pressures, has the risk of these personalities not gelling.

   1999, Richard E. Grant, With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant, →ISBN