Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One that faces, especially a device used in smoothing or dressing a surface.
- n. An unexpected, stunning blow or defeat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat
- n. One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
- n. A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
- n. A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
- n. a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who faces; one who puts on a bold face.
- n. A severe blow on the face; hence, any sudden cheek that staggers one.
- n. A bumper of wine.
- n. A post-office employee whose business is to arrange letters with their faces in one direction.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced
Etymologies
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Examples
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This was a "facer"; the librarian seemed to have brought up against a stone wall, but she waited, knowing that a situation, unlike a knot, will sometimes untie itself.
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Before he could reply, Ike had another "facer" for him.
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In breathless silence the little group of spectators watched his movements, and when, with sharply exhaled breath, he planted a crashing "facer" straight from the shoulder squarely upon the leathern disk they sprang eagerly forward to note the result.
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This would have been a "facer" to any but a true son of Uncle Sam.
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"That from you, and in the presence of Weissmann, is a 'facer'!
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It was a facer to me, and with quite a pronounced fellow-feeling for
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This was what Bertie Wooster would have called “a bit of a facer”; I was groping for an apt response when Clark pressed on.
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Now, having proved you can solve any problem, dear blogging friends, I have a real facer for you.
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But Mr. Hornaday's reply is such a facer to him and his homocentric theory that he has to do something.
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In fact, it is propinquity that usually gives the facer to the logic of youth.
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