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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stunt
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cheap...stunt
▪ another cheap political stunt
pull a stunt/trick/joke
▪ Don’t you ever pull a stunt like that again!
stunt man
stunt woman
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
man
▪ Will Hollywood movie stars leave all the on-screen action to their stunt men?
▪ Her husband, stunt man Scott Wilder, was injured.
publicity
▪ A statement from the heart or a mere publicity stunt?
▪ He overrode negative reviews with publicity stunts.
▪ It could be a publicity stunt gone wrong.
▪ Unionist politicians accused him of naivety and dismissed the truce as a publicity stunt.
▪ Now that times are tougher, such costly publicity stunts are harder to justify.
▪ It's a publicity stunt to gain sympathy.
■ VERB
do
▪ And not just movie actors who can do stunts.
▪ Boy, this guy did a terrific stunt on his bike.
perform
▪ However, performing many of the stunts requires good eye and hand coordination, as well as lots and lots of grip and strength.
▪ It means constant activity above their heads as they perform their already risky stunts.
pull
▪ As a globe-trotting performer, Mu oz manages to pull his stunts in shows some 450 times a year.
▪ Daley was going to pull the oldest convention stunt of them all-packing the gallery.
▪ He became a convert after pulling an extraordinary stunt with his Swissmade Kuhn-Rikon pressure cooker.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lockiear was the first pilot to do aerial stunts for the movies.
▪ The hunger strike is thought to be just another political stunt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A goofy stunt for February sweeps?
▪ But Moore freely admits he has no stomach for the stunts.
▪ He also knew the value of goofy legal stunts.
▪ She was more concerned by the attitude of the authorities on both sides of the river, who wanted no more stunts.
▪ That same year, a minor tragedy occurred during a pre-game stunt.
▪ The stunt took two years to perfect, and the team used a series of remote cameras to film every breath-taking second.
▪ The stunt was enacted in the grounds of Longleat House, home of the Marquis of Bath.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
growth
▪ No such inhibitions stunt the growth of the rag trade at the polar opposite point from the basking Sloanes.
▪ The brain under these vessels develops severe seizures, is stunted in its growth, and becomes essentially useless.
▪ He has Seckels Syndrome, a rare disease that stunts growth.
▪ Pollution is stunting their growth and reducing blood enzyme activity.
▪ And if self-abuse stunts your growth, why put mucky mags on the top shelf?
▪ Government-organised cartels have stunted its growth.
▪ A terrestrial plant will always be stunted in growth and assimilation and can never be a match for a true aquatic plant.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Slow economic growth stunted corporate profits last quarter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I refused to fly alone until I knew some stunting.
▪ The Parmenters lived in a stunted frame house at the edge of a brick sidewalk in Georgetown.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stunt

Stunt \Stunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stunting.] [See Stint.] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation.
--Burke.

Stunt

Stunt \Stunt\, n.

  1. A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.

  2. Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

Stunt

Stunt \Stunt\, n. [Cf. Stint a task.]

  1. A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat.

    An extraordinary man does three or four different ``stunts'' with remarkable dexterity.
    --The Bookman.

    He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming.
    --L. Hutton.

  2. an unusual action performed to gain public attention; as, a publicity stunt.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stunt

"check in growth, dwarf," 1650s, from verb uses of Middle English adjective stunnt "foolish," from Old English stunt "short-witted, foolish" (as in stuntspræc "foolish talk"), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (source of Old Norse stuttr "short"). Related: Stunted; stunting.

stunt

"feat to attract attention," 1878, American English college sports slang, of uncertain origin. Speculated to be a variant of colloquial stump "dare, challenge" (1871), or of German stunde, literally "hour." The movie stunt man is attested from 1930.

Wiktionary
stunt

Etymology 1 n. 1 A dare or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills. 2 (context archaic English) skill 3 (cx American football English) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line. Etymology 2

n. 1 A check in growth. 2 That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing. 3 A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To check or hinder the growth or development of. 2 (context intransitive cheerleading English) To perform a stunt. 3 (context intransitive slang AAVE English) To show off; to posture.

WordNet
stunt
  1. n. a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention

  2. a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth

stunt
  1. v. check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles"

  2. perform a stunt or stunts

Wikipedia
Stunt

A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat or an act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually on television, theatre, or cinema. Stunts are a feature of many action films. Before computer generated imagery special effects, these effects were limited to the use of models, false perspective and other in-camera effects, unless the creator could find someone willing to jump from car to car or hang from the edge of a skyscraper: the stunt performer or stunt double.

Stunt (album)

Stunt is the fourth full-length studio album by Barenaked Ladies. By far their most successful album, it entered the US charts at #3 and sold over 4 million units by the end of its chart run. Its first single, " One Week" became the band's breakthrough single in the U.S. market by hitting #1 (selling over 5 million copies). The song also reached #5 in the UK, and helped revitalize their career in the band's home country of Canada, where their fame had diminished since the days of their debut album Gordon. In addition, follow-up singles " It's All Been Done", " Alcohol" and " Call and Answer" were each successful to some degree.

Stunt is the first studio album to feature keyboardist/guitarist Kevin Hearn, who originally joined the band for the Born on a Pirate Ship tour in 1995. Shortly after the release of the album, Hearn was diagnosed with leukemia. He spent the Stunt tour receiving chemotherapy and was replaced by Chris Brown and Greg Kurstin in the interim.

Tracks recorded for Stunt that did not appear on the album were "Long Way Back Home" and "She's On Time." These tracks appear as hidden tracks on the "limited edition" version of the album. "Long Way Back Home" was used during the closing credits for the band's Stunt tour documentary Barenaked in America.

There was also a special edition of the album which contained the standard 13 tracks plus a second disc including two versions of " Brian Wilson" (the album version and the "2000" version), and live versions of " The Old Apartment", " Jane", "When I Fall", " If I Had $1000000" and "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank".

As with each of their earlier albums, the band recorded one song, "Alcohol", completely naked.

The album was released on vinyl June 2, 2015.

Stunt (botany)

In botany and agriculture, stunting describes a plant disease that results in dwarfing and loss of vigor. It may be caused by infectious or noninfectious means.

Stunt (gridiron football)

A stunt in American football and Canadian football, sometimes called a twist, is a planned maneuver by a pair of players of the defensive team by which they exchange roles to better slip past blockers of the offensive team at the beginning of a play.

The purpose of a stunt is to confuse opposing blockers, which is an aid to the defense in rushing an opposing forward pass or kick. The main weakness of a stunt is that it is more vulnerable than average to running plays by the opposing team. In most cases, the defense will not use a play incorporating stunting if it expects a running play from the offense.

There are two main types of stunts. In one, a line player, who would otherwise try to charge forward, instead drops back, and a nearby linebacker or defensive back charges forward instead. In the other, which is known as cross-rushing, line players, instead of charging straight ahead, cross paths. One of them may follow a looping path that goes behind the other before moving forward (in which case the stunt is called a "loop"), or one may wait for the other to penetrate slightly first, and then cross behind, their paths angling across each other. In some variants, a rushing player will run around more than one rushing teammate.

Because of the exchange of roles, a stunt is sometimes called a "trade"; blockers of the offensive team may engage in similar "trades". The defensive players involved are said to be stunting or trading, or sometimes to "have a game on".

The name "stunt" presumably derives from its more general meaning of a showy trick. The term has been used in a football context since at least the 1960s. However, the maneuver itself dates back to the 19th century. Walter Camp wrote of role exchanges between a line player and a "line-half" (then the nomenclature for what is now called a linebacker; presumably a cross between lineman and halfback, or a halfback playing behind the line; cf. "scrum-half" in rugby) in efforts to block a kick from scrimmage, forward passes not yet having been legal.

Stunt (music act)

Stunt is a dance music project of British remixers/producers Pete Kirtley, Molly Smitten-Downes, Simon Wills and Dave Valler. Stunt is signed to Absolute records with their releases distributed through AATW ( All Around The World).

Stunt (sport)

STUNT is a new and growing sport that is very similar to Cheerleading in terms of athletic skills. In spring 2011, USA Cheer announced that 21 universities are now committed to this sport. STUNT requires high athletic skills and its competition format and scoring systems are unique. The maximum number of players on each team can reach 30 athletes. STUNT Athletes are engaged from multiple backgrounds, including traditional cheerleading schools, “All Stars” who are non-school cheerleaders and acrobatics and/or gymnastics athletes. STUNT is being considered for NCAA Emerging Sport status and has been designed to meet Title IX's requirements for intercollegiate sports.

Stunt (disambiguation)

A stunt is a difficult or unusual feat performed for film or theatre.

Stunt or Stunting may also refer to:

  • Stunted growth or stunting, a primary manifestation of malnutrition in early childhood
  • Stunt (botany), a plant disease that results in dwarfing and loss of vigor
  • Stunt (music act), a British dance music act
  • Stunt (album), an album by Barenaked Ladies
  • Stunts (video game), a driving video game
  • Stunt (football), an American Football defensive play
  • Stunting (broadcasting), when a radio station abruptly begins broadcasting seemingly uncharacteristic programming
  • Stunt Records, a record label
  • Publicity stunt, a planned event designed to attract the public's attention to the promoters or their causes

Usage examples of "stunt".

And there were trees-not just the stunted stands of Alpine willow and Glang-ma, whose long branches the nomads used to weave their intricate basketry, or the twisted bush that provided the Yeti-wood for their fires-but around Lhasa were forests of spruce and fir, pine and spreading yew, black and white birches, oaks and poplar.

And now, three thousand years later, like a bonsai tree that had been pruned and repruned into its final, twisted shape, he was fixed in himself, was stunted and constrained and nearly dead.

He stood or squatted within bowshot, but behind such rocks and stunted trees as offered shelter.

He stole along under shadow of the stunted trees and withies, with bent body and gliding gait, so that from Bridgewater it would be no easy matter for the most keen-sighted to see him.

He had found Billy nursing Eversofar in the shade of a stunted brigalow, while Bingong was away hunting for water.

Found in the Nevada mountains, the bristlecone pine is a stunted specimen looking more like a piece of standing driftwood than a living organism, but it can live five thousand years!

TV set with its compulsively hypomanic dwarfed and stunted figure, now gesticulating in a speeded-up frenzy, as if the video technicians had allowed -- or induced -- the tape to seek its maximum velocity.

Over the years he came to resemble a high hill covered in grass and shrubs and stunted trees, with here and there a portion of scale showing through, and the colossal head entirely emergent, unclothed by vegetation, engaging everything that passed before him with huge, slit-pupiled golden eyes, exerting a malefic influence over the events that flowed around him, twisting them into shapes that conformed to the cruel designs his discarnate intellect delighted in the weaving of and profited his vengeful will.

Stunted, alien creatures, warped by enormous forces into miserably malformed, distorted shapes.

Eucalyptus dumosus, vulgarly called Mallee, and exceedingly stunted specimens of that, will grow anything, I will tell him he knows nothing.

Cities of any sort were far, far away, and there was nothing but stunted manzanita as far as the eye could see.

There the earth was so filled with moorstone and peat that only stunted trees and the poor grasses could survive.

Not a forest of the tall sturdy trees of warmer climates, these birches were stunted and dwarfed by the harsh periglacial conditions, yet they were not without beauty.

Beggars sat by church doors asking for alms, mendicant friars begged bread for their orders or for the poor in prison, jongleurs performed stunts and magic in the plazas and recited satiric tales and narrative ballads of adventure in Saracen lands.

On Yavin Four, Sannah and my son, Valin, were trying to be like you when they pulled their foolish stunt.