"fright wig" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1920, Rex Ellingwood Beach, A Bitter Root Billingsrbiter:",
          "text": "There's an awfulness about the voice of a blood-maddened club-swingin' mob; it lifts your scalp like a fright wig, particularly if you are the clubee.",
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          "ref": "1989 November 3, Janet Maslin, “Film Review: Second Sight (1989)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-06:",
          "text": "Mr. Pinchot, wearing a long-haired fright wig, plays a guileless nut named Bobby McGee who has been struck by lightning and turned into a psychic.",
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          "ref": "2006 January 19, Arifa Akbar, “Warhol's final self-portraits reveal his darker side”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-06-06:",
          "text": "Six months before Andy Warhol died of a heart attack, he finished painting his last series of self-portraits. . . . In the images, set on an inky black background, his bald head is covered by his famously disconcerting \"fright wig\".",
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        "A wig, usually worn for humorous or novelty effect, having voluminous, frizzy, long hair, suggesting the hair \"standing on end\" of a person who is extremely frightened or who has experienced a powerful electric shock."
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          "frizzy"
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          "ref": "1989 November 3, Janet Maslin, “Film Review: Second Sight (1989)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-06:",
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