stunner
The English word “stunner” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- Anything that is stunning.
- A woman or man of stunning beauty or handsomeness (often hyperbolic), a knockout.
- 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.
- A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.
- A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.
Etymology
From stun + -er.
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