stunlock

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verb

To render (a character) unable to move or react by repeatedly hitting them and keeping them in a stunned state.

“I got stunlocked by that boss's electric attack and died.”

OriginEnglish lock ← Middle English lok ← Old English loc →
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Meanings

verbstunlock (third-person singular simple present stunlocks, present participle stunlocking, simple past and past participle stunlocked)

present singular third person stunlocks · participle present stunlocking · participle past stunlocked · past stunlocked

  1. transitivevideo gamesTo render (a character) unable to move or react by repeatedly hitting them and keeping them in a stunned state.

    I got stunlocked by that boss's electric attack and died.

  2. figurativelytransitiveTo make (someone) freeze, not knowing how to respond or react, by doing something unexpected or shocking.

    In his labcoat, his phone buzzed. Stunlocked by Karen's furious glare, he pulled it out.

    2024 September 12, Harry Blank, “Nothing Changes”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 229
nounstunlock (countable and uncountable, plural stunlocks)

plural stunlocks

  1. countableuncountablevideo gamesA stunned state of this kind.

Origin

  1. Englishstun
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*luką
  4. Proto-West Germanic*lok
  5. Old Englishloc
  6. Middle Englishlok
  7. Englishlock
  8. Englishstunlock

From stun + lock.

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Cite this entry
APA

stunlock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stunlock

MLA

“stunlock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stunlock. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stunlock,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stunlock.

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