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noun
A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
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noun
Ellipsis of publicity stunt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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noun
A skill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A check in growth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
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Usage: countable
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verb
To perform a stunt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: cheerleading, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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Synonyms: flamboast, floss, high-side, aura farm, boulevardier, cut a wide swath, cut it fat, cut round, exhibitionize, figure away, flaunt, flex, fluff one's feathers, gallery, let one's nuts hang, ostent, ostentate, preen, showboat, show away, show off, strut, strut one's stuff, stunt, swag it out, swagger, swank, three-sheet, venditate, yaya
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verb
To check or hinder the growth or development of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: feat, effort, exploit
Narrower terms: Russian roulette, acrobatic stunt, acrobatic feat
noun
a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
verb
perform a stunt or stunts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: perform, execute, do
verb
check the growth or development of
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Broader terms: impede, hinder
Narrower terms: dwarf
History
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.
Across languages
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
