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chills

Date: Nov 15 2007

Quote

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“I got chills. I couldn’t believe that someone I consider a genius would know my band’s name, much less sing words I wrote.”

- Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl on seeing Prince perform one of his songs. (Spin)

Definition

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to experience or realize something so shocking it makes you cold

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Have you ever seen or heard something that touches you so deeply that you feel cold? That cold feeling is called chills. A lot of times you shake a little bit when you get chills and little bumps called goosebumps stand up on your skin.

Dave Grohl is a huge fan of Prince. In fact, he’s such a big fan, that his band, the Foo Fighters has performed one of Prince’s songs before.

Grohl was very surprised to learn that Prince performed a song that he wrote during halftime of the Super Bowl. When he found out, he immediately got online and found the clip.

Watching it gave him chills. He was so amazed that Prince was playing his song that his skin got cold.

Examples

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“When I realized who my husband was cheating on me with I got the chills. It was my sister.”

Winners

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	"I got chills" means its like, he felt an extra-ordinary feeling.Example,when you see a ghost you feel kinda cold and your hair feels like getting up.Its just an extra-ordinary feeling. by deevine23
	I think he means that he reacted with surprise and happiness. His body seemed thrilled and excited, so the chills. by addiama
	It's kind of like when you get excited. It's like when you get a weird feeling down your spine. It's like you get emotions and your body hair stands up. by wushuninja
	he was so excited about it that he felt the same feeling as when a cold wind blows by fanny_dth
	Goosebumps,in a pleasant way.Being pleasantly surprised. by Austinpowers
	chill is when something make you feel too much surprised that you can feel your body cold haha by katia657
	shiver, was shocked by luvbutterfly
	It is when you feel a cold current coming down your spine, in this case because he was highly surprised for something by Mario Rodríguez
	shivering of the body because of a strong feeling by luján
	It's something like the feeling between surprised and shocked in his admiration. A positive, exciting feeling! by kaylaximuoi
	Something like that: " I was so surprised that it gave me the shivers." Surprised and frightened. by PINGWIN