stunt

Meaning

1. A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
2. An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
3. Ellipsis of publicity stunt.
4. A skill.
5. A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
6. To perform a stunt.
7. To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables.
8. To check or hinder the growth or development of.
9. A check in growth.
10. That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
11. A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.

Etymology / origin

Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).

Related words

Descendant words

• stunt(Dutch) (bor)
• stunten(Dutch) (der)
• stuntti(Finnish) (bor)
• Stunt(German) (bor)
• スタント(Japanese) (bor)
• stunt(Norwegian Bokmål) (bor)
• stunt(Norwegian Nynorsk) (bor)
• stunt(Swedish) (bor)

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