English Explanatory Dictionary

stunner

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Anything that is stunning.
  2. A woman or man of stunning beauty or handsomeness (often hyperbolic), a knockout.
  3. A professional wrestling maneuver in which an attacking wrestler applies a facelock to an opponent and falls to a seated position, forcing the opponent's jaw or neck to drop on the attacker's shoulder.
  4. A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.
  5. A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.

Pronunciation

en-us-stunner.ogg

Word forms

stunner stunners

Etymology

From stun + -er.

Related words

stunna

Derived words

Dunner stunner neurostunner put the stunners on

Translations

Bulgarian: нещо изумително Polish: rewelacja Polish: bajer Spanish: maravilla Finnish: namupala Irish: spéirbhean Irish: leadhb Portuguese: mulherão Portuguese: mulheraça Ottoman Turkish: كوزل
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