shocker
pronunciation
How to pronounce shocker in British English:
UK [ˈʃɒkə(r)]
How to pronounce shocker in American English:
US [ˈʃɑkə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a shockingly bad person
- a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)
Word Origin
- shocker (n.)
- "something that shocks or excites," 1824, agent noun from shock (v.).
Example
- 1. Total shocker . He 's like a nice guy .
- 2. That wouldn 't be a shocker .
- 3. Didn 't go so great last night , huh ? What a shocker .
- 4. Not much of a shocker .
- 5. When the film first came out in the late 1960s , it was a real shocker .