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shock tactics

shock tactics noun: tactics that are intended to shock and push outside the comfort zone.

Noun

shock tactics pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Tactics that are intended to shock and push outside the comfort zone.
    • To their critics, the YBAs, with their emphasis on sex, sensationalism and shock tactics, were doing little more than copying the tactics of the ad agencies.2015, Dominic Sandbrook, The Great British Dream Factory, Penguin, published 2016, page 110

Questions about shock tactics

What does shock tactics mean?
Shock tactics means tactics that are intended to shock and push outside the comfort zone.
What part of speech is shock tactics?
Shock tactics is a noun.

Words near shock tactics in the dictionary

  1. shock stall
  2. shock stalled
  3. shock stalling
  4. shock stallings
  5. shock stalls
  6. shock tactics
  7. shock therapies
  8. shock therapy
  9. shock to the system
  10. shock trauma
  11. shock treatment

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