shocker
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++shock·er /ˈʃɒkə $ ˈʃɑːkər/ noun [countable] informal SHOCKa film, news story, action etc that shocks you – used especially in news reports 〔影片、新闻等〕引起震惊的东西〔尤用于新闻报道〕 TV star in drugs shocker! 电视明星吸毒的惊爆新闻！Examples from the Corpus
shocker• This film may be a shocker, but as well as being very sexy it's also pretty funny at times.• I was a shocker when I was younger.• I rarely pay attention to market forecasts, but this was a shocker.• Nestor followed with his shocker over Edberg.• The big screen shocker is just part of ex-Beatle McCartney's up-front tactics campaign against whaling.• Once he used to write short sharp shockers you couldn't put down.• Listeners preparing to bone up on the one-act Strauss shocker opening Oct. 18 should consider this Vienna production.shock·er nounChineseSyllable
a etc that story, Corpus action film, news
shocker
shock‧er /ˈʃɒkə $ ˈʃɑːkər/
noun [countable] informal
TV star in drugs shocker!
shock‧er /ˈʃɒkə $ ˈʃɑːkər/
noun [countable] informal Word Family: adjective: shocked, shocking, shock, shockproof; noun: shock, shocker, aftershock; verb: shock; adverb: shockingly
a film, news story, action etc that shocks you – used especially in news reports: