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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shocker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I rarely pay attention to market forecasts, but this was a shocker.
▪ I was a shocker when I was younger.
▪ Listeners preparing to bone up on the one-act Strauss shocker opening Oct. 18 should consider this Vienna production.
▪ Nestor followed with his shocker over Edberg.
▪ Once he used to write short sharp shockers you couldn't put down.
▪ The big screen shocker is just part of ex-Beatle McCartney's up-front tactics campaign against whaling.
▪ This film may be a shocker, but as well as being very sexy it's also pretty funny at times.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shocker

"something that shocks or excites," 1824, agent noun from shock (v.).

Wiktionary
shocker

n. (non-gloss definition agent noun Agent noun of shock:) one who shocks; a person or thing that shocks or startles.

WordNet
shocker
  1. n. a shockingly bad person

  2. a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)

Wikipedia
Shocker (comics)

The Shocker (Herman Schultz) is a fictional supervillain that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Shocker (hand gesture)

The shocker, also known colloquially as "two in the pink, one in the stink," is a hand gesture with a sexual connotation. The ring finger and thumb are curled or bent down while the other fingers are extended. The index and middle fingers are kept together (touching) and the back of the hand faces outwards (away from the gesturer). The gesture refers to the act of inserting the index and middle fingers into a vagina and the little finger into the receiver's anus, hence the "shock".

Shocker (wrestler)

José Luis Jair Soria is a Mexican professional wrestler, who wrestles under the name Shocker. He has in the past branched out into the United States, working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Shocker

Shocker may refer to:

  • Shocker (comics), a supervillain in the Marvel Comics shared universe of comic book series
  • Shocker (wrestler), a Mexican-American professional wrestler
  • Shocker (hand gesture), a hand gesture with a sexual connotation
  • The Shocker (band), a musical group led by Jennifer Finch
  • Shockers, the nickname of Wichita State University athletic teams, a contraction of the original term "Wheatshockers"
  • Shocker (paintball marker), a paintball marker built by Smart Parts
  • Shocker (film), a 1989 Wes Craven horror film
  • Shocker (Kamen Rider), a fictional organization from Kamen Rider
  • The Shocker (album), a 1996 hip hop album by American rapper Silkk the Shocker
  • Shocker (Dungeons & Dragons), creature in the Dungeons & Dragons series
  • Shock site
Shocker (paintball marker)

The Shocker is a series of electropneumatic paintball markers manufactured by Smart Parts. The original Shocker was built by PneuVentures and distributed by Smart Parts in the US in 1995. It is now discontinued, but was the first electropneumatic paintball marker on the market at the time. Several revisions of the marker have since been produced.

Shocker (film)

Shocker (also known as Wes Craven's Shocker) is a 1989 American comedic slasher horror film film written and directed by Wes Craven. It stars Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, and Mitch Pileggi as the evil antagonist Horace Pinker.

Shocker (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the shocker is a type of elemental creature.

Usage examples of "shocker".

Mara saw one Shocker go EV and slam into a chunk of asteroid when a volcano cannon sheered his S-foils, then watched another vanish in a ball of flame as his starfighter smashed headlong into a magma missile.

Halock, Tom Shocker managed to learn a good deal about Nat and his trouble with Dave and the others, and he also learned that the youth had considerable spending-money with him.

Falls, Tom Shocker told much about himself, and Nat learned that the fellow was one of those shiftless mortals who change from one situation to another.

He found Tom Shocker rather coarse, and the man wanted to drink whenever the opportunity afforded.

From the rapids below the Falls the pair walked to Goat Island, and there Nat was on the point of giving Shocker the slip when he chanced to see Dave and the others of the party.

Dave, as he and Tom Shocker hurried through several side streets of the city.

This resort was run by a man named Bill Fargo, a sport who had once had dealings with Shocker in a prize-fighting enterprise.

Tom Shocker, as he stopped in front of a door at the back of the hallway on the third floor of the building.

Dave, and leaping forward he caught Tom Shocker by the shoulder and forced him aside.

At the same time Tom Shocker caught Dave by both arms and essayed to hold him.

In less than two minutes Tom Shocker accomplished his purpose, and then he glided out of the room silently, once more locking the door.

He said that he had hung around the depot waiting for Tom Shocker to come, but that the fellow had failed to show himself.

Porter told Nat that his father would have to settle the matter if Tom Shocker was not brought to book.

Nat Poole, in which Nat stated that he had been looking for the fellow who called himself Tom Shocker and had at last located the rascal in a town not far from Buffalo.

The sanitary white of the walls and tiles is a shocker at the best of times, but it seemed almost dreamlike after the rainy Seattle evening.