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Stunt
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- 1 A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
"He found ways to devise, stage, and film stunts that are like nothing anyone’s ever accomplished. He recorded stunning image after stunning image; practically every frame of Fury Road could be a painting."
- 2 A check in growth. countable, uncountable
- 3 a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention wordnet
- 4 An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
- 5 That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing. countable
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- 6 a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth wordnet
- 7 Ellipsis of publicity stunt. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 8 A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber. countable
- 9 A skill. archaic
""See if you can hit the barrel, Joe," urged George Bland. "A lot of us have missed it, including Peaches, who seems to think his particular stunt is high throwing.""
- 10 A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
- 1 To perform a stunt. intransitive
- 2 To check or hinder the growth or development of. transitive
"Some have said smoking stunts your growth."
- 3 perform a stunt or stunts wordnet
- 4 To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables. intransitive, slang
"Call me the juice and you know I'm a stunt."
- 5 to look good wordnet
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- 6 check the growth or development of wordnet
Etymology
Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).
Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).
From dialectal stunt (“stubborn, dwarfed”), from Middle English stont, stunt (“short, brief”), from Old English stunt (“stupid, foolish, simple”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, compact, stupid, dull”). Cognate with Middle High German stunz (“short”), Old Norse stuttr (“short in stature, dwarfed”). Related to Old English styntan (“to make dull, stupefy, become dull, repress”). More at stint.
From dialectal stunt (“stubborn, dwarfed”), from Middle English stont, stunt (“short, brief”), from Old English stunt (“stupid, foolish, simple”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, compact, stupid, dull”). Cognate with Middle High German stunz (“short”), Old Norse stuttr (“short in stature, dwarfed”). Related to Old English styntan (“to make dull, stupefy, become dull, repress”). More at stint.
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