stunt
/stʌnt/
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Northern England/stʊnt/
stunt noun: a daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills. Also the ellipsis of publicity stunt.
Noun (1)
stunt (plural stunts)
- A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
- He found ways to devise, stage, and film stunts that are like nothing anyone’s ever accomplished. He recorded stunning image after stunning image; practically every frame of Fury Road could be a painting.2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club
- An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
- A skill.
- "See if you can hit the barrel, Joe," urged George Bland. "A lot of us have missed it, including Peaches, who seems to think his particular stunt is high throwing."1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine
- A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
Verb (1)
stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)
- To perform a stunt.
- To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables.
- Call me the juice and you know I'm a stunt.2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring...
- I was that interested because I wanted the Z28, but I wasn't going another day with Sterling stunting on me with the Contour.2015, Seth Turner Jr., Brother: The Self-made Story of a St. Louis Entrepreneur
- Synonyms:
- flamboast, floss, high-side, aura farm, boulevardier, cut a wide swath, cut it fat, cut round, exhibitionize, figure away
Verb (2)
stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)
- To check or hinder the growth or development of.
- Some have said smoking stunts your growth.
- The politician timed his announcement to stunt any surge in the polls his opponent might gain from the convention.
Noun (2)
stunt (countable and uncountable, plural stunts)
Also used as
stunt is also the ellipsis of publicity stunt.
stunt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
stunt in Hindi
- स्टंट
stunt in Tamil
- ஸ்டண்ட், ஸ்டன்ட்
stunt in Marathi
- स्टंट
stunt in Urdu
- اسٹنٹ, سٹنٹ
More languagesFewer languages
- stunt in Bengali
- স্টান্ট, স্ট্যান্ট
- stunt in Telugu
- స్టంట్
- stunt in Malayalam
- സ്റ്റണ്ട്
- stunt in Kannada
- ಸ್ಟಂಟ್
- stunt in Punjabi
- ਸਟੰਟ
- stunt in Gujarati
- સ્ટંટ, સ્ટન્ટ
- stunt in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟଣ୍ଟ, ଷ୍ଟଣ୍ଟ୍
- stunt in Nepali
- स्टन्ट, स्टान्ट, स्टंट
Examples of stunt in a sentence
- You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.
- The artist's latest stunt was obviously an attempt to whomp up some cheap publicity.
- You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions.
Synonyms of stunt
- flamboast
- floss
- high-side
- aura farm
- boulevardier
- cut a wide swath
- exhibitionize
- flex
- fluff one's feathers
- gallery
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Forms of stunt
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stunts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stunts |
| present participle | stunting |
| past participle | stunted |
| past | stunted |
Origin of stunt
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.
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Questions about stunt
- What does stunt mean?
- Stunt means a daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
- What is stunt in Hindi?
- Stunt in Hindi is स्टंट. See Stunt meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is stunt?
- Stunt can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce stunt?
- Stunt is pronounced /stʌnt/.
- What is the plural of stunt?
- The plural of stunt is stunts.
Words near stunt in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stunt (page history and authors); stunt (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stunt (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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