stunner
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]stunner (plural stunners)
- (colloquial) Anything that is stunning.
- (colloquial, variant spelling "stunna") A woman of stunning beauty (often hyperbolically), a knockout.
- (professional wrestling) 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.
- (science fiction) A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.
- 2018, Jonathan Moeller, Silent Order: Omnibus One:
- March holstered his pistol, reached into his coat, and drew out his own neural stunner, shifting the weapon to his right hand.
- A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]anything that is stunning
woman of stunning beauty
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