stunt

plural stunts

1. 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

2. An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
3. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of publicity stunt.
4. archaicA 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

5. American footballA special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.

present singular third person stunts · participle present stunting · participle past stunted · past stunted

1. intransitivecheerleadingTo perform a stunt.
2. intransitiveslangAfrican-American VernacularTo 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 Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG

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   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

present singular third person stunts · participle present stunting · participle past stunted · past stunted

1. transitiveTo check or hinder the growth or development of.

   Some have said smoking stunts your growth.

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   The politician timed his announcement to stunt any surge in the polls his opponent might gain from the convention.

plural stunts

1. countableuncountableA check in growth.
2. countableThat which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
3. countableA two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.