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stunner definition

stun·ner (stun′ər)

noun

  1. one that stuns
  2. Informal a remarkably attractive, excellent, etc. person or thing

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stunner Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • score: Scored two stunners in one first half game only to be dragged off at half time.

Preposition: in

  • stake: Sunday 26th February 2006 Honda's new 2006 Deauville isn't a stunner in the performance stakes.

Adjective modifier

  • humane: In the late 1920s, the association carried out an eight month demonstration of the humane stunner at an Islington slaughterhouse.

Noun used with modifier

  • waterbath: It can be seen that constant voltage waterbath stunners are totally unreliable.
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