Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that startles, shocks, or horrifies, as a sensational story or novel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who shocks; specifically, a bad character.
- n. That which shocks; specifically, a vulgarly exciting tale or description. Compare penny dreadful, under dreadful, n.
- n. A machine for shocking corn: same as ricker.
Wiktionary
- n. Agent noun of shock: one who shocks; a person or thing that shocks or startles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a shockingly bad person
- n. a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)
Etymologies
- to shock + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“England shocker is no longer a surpriseEngland had another of their humbling moments at Wembley on Tuesday, shocking the nation with their inability to even look like beating a fledgling football country with a population of just 670,000.”
The Guardian: Roberto Mancini is showing the bottle needed to be a success
“Mize, 50, and Norman, 54, forever linked because of Mize's 140-foot chip-in shocker to beat Norman on the second playoff hole of the 1987 Masters, made early and sustained appearances on the white scoreboards — Mize with a 67 and Norman with a 70.”
“The only shocker is how brazenly overt these people have become. gl, From Pittsburgh”
“When the biggest shocker comes from the widely-unseen The Secret of Kells being nominated for Best Animated Feature, then the prediction system worked as it should.”
2010 Oscar Nominations Announced; AVATAR and THE HURT LOCKER Lead with 9 Noms Each – Collider.com
“The shocker is that someone actually ponyed up more $ to do another one.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Shots of the Silver Surfer on the set of FF 2
“The shocker is that immediately following, on NBC†™ s msm news with Brian Williams, an entirely different picture of Rum was presented.”
Think Progress » Media Fails To Report Rumsfeld’s Misleading Claims From March 2003
“The shocker is not really Google Checkout predatory pricing, but the "content policy," or what you can't buy (or more specifically sell).”
“One shocker is the argument that germs are one of the main reasons for cultural expansion.”
“The shocker was the grandma coming up, grandma comes up and she gets naked and just kind of hung out naked, which was really, really awkward.”
“The shocker was a paragraph that extended full citizenship to any resident of Canon space who, never having stood in arms against Canon, claimed it formally.”
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Genes
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FUN - gestures
There are thousands of sign languages and possibly millions of gestures in human communication but not all of them have a name. Some are understood everywhere, some are understood everywhere but di...
okay sign, abhayamudra, apology, beckoning sign, Bellamy salute, benediction, blessing, blah-blah, "check, please” sign, clenched fist, Chinese number ge..., Clinton thumb and 360 more...
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Handcraft
Gestures, signs and signals.
gesture, sign language, hand signal, manual communication, diving signal, tic-tac, gang signal, thumbs up, thumbs down, finger binary, pointing, a-ok and 106 more...
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mix-breeds, mutts, and mongrels
This is a partial listing of dogs actually published by the American Canine Hybrid Club.
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