Word family noun shock shocker aftershock adjective shocked shocking shock shockproof verb shock adverb shockingly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshockershock‧er /ˈʃɒkə $ ˈʃɑːkər/ noun [countable] informal SHOCKa film, news story, action etc that shocks you – used especially in news reports TV star in drugs shocker!Examples from the Corpus
shocker• This film may be a shocker, but as well as being very sexy it's also pretty funny at times.• I was a shocker when I was younger.• I rarely pay attention to market forecasts, but this was a shocker.• Nestor followed with his shocker over Edberg.• The big screen shocker is just part of ex-Beatle McCartney's up-front tactics campaign against whaling.• Once he used to write short sharp shockers you couldn't put down.• Listeners preparing to bone up on the one-act Strauss shocker opening Oct. 18 should consider this Vienna production. 