A device for giving electric shocks.
Used in a Sentence
shocker
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shocker.
Editorial note
The shocker after the ordeal is the victim was released an hour before he did.
Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A device for giving electric shocks.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of shocker gathered in one view.
(colloquial) One who or that which shocks or startles.
(colloquial) Something done very badly.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for shocker.
noun
A device for giving electric shocks.
noun
(colloquial) One who or that which shocks or startles.
noun
(colloquial) Something done very badly.
noun
(slang, vulgar, colloquial) An offensive hand gesture suggesting two in the pink, one in the stink.
Example sentences
The shocker after the ordeal is the victim was released an hour before he did.
The shocker for me is that New York City will pay you unemployment benefits to move to St.
However, and this might be a bit of a shocker for you, they might not deal with variable pricing that well.
Which was an absolute shocker to both the person involved and family.
But the real shocker is that you can't really write serious Ada for free, gnat is a pain, the free toolchain is a joke.
Well, for me, the shocker was the public reaction to it.
In fact the big snowden shocker turned out to be bullshit.
Drug enforcement officers on the take shocker.
What a shocker when we found out we were wrong!
Different things behave differently (shocker).
The real shocker is that Linus Torvalds uses gmail, where you have no control over anything regarding your account (exhibit A: look an awesome new spam filter which you can't turn off!).
Having been working with Ruby on Rails for nearly the past two years, it was a shocker at the amount of crap and copy-and-paste I had to do to get it working.
Quote examples
That's quite the real "shocker" to the poor worker.
"As a member of a particularly undesirable racial group,..." or "Some of us less desirable types...") The real shocker though is who advocates for restricting searches by race!
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use shocker in a sentence?
The shocker after the ordeal is the victim was released an hour before he did.
What does shocker mean?
A device for giving electric shocks.
What part of speech is shocker?
shocker is commonly used as noun.