Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word STUNT

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Definitions of STUNT

1. A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
2. A check in growth.
3. That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
4. A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
5. (archaic) skill
6. (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
7. (intransitive, cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
8. (intransitive, slang, AAVE) To show off; to posture.
9. (transitive) To check or hinder the growth or development of.

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Examples of Using STUNT in a Sentence

• Jones is also the inspiration for several Disney theme park attractions, including Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril, the Indiana Jones Adventure, and Epic Stunt Spectacular! attractions.
• Ky Furneaux (born 1973), Australian television personality and host, outdoor guide, survival expert, and stunt person.
• The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.
• Ricou Ren Browning (February 16, 1930 – February 27, 2023) was an American stunt performer, filmmaker and actor.
• Common characteristics of Bushisms include malapropisms, spoonerisms, the creation of neologisms or stunt words, and errors in subject–verb agreement.
• The band's popularity subsequently spread into the US, beginning with versions of "Brian Wilson" and "The Old Apartment" off their 1996 live album Rock Spectacle, followed by their fourth studio album Stunt, their breakout success in 1998.
• In August 2018, Mayo temporarily changed the town's name to "Miracle Whip" as an advertisement publicity stunt for the Kraft Heinz brand.
• Rufus Hannah, aka "Rufus the Stunt Bum", born and raised in Swainsboro, famous for his role in the controversial Bumfights series.
• Smith Aviation Field was built in 1926 on the west side of town, and it became popular for stunt flying, wing walkers, and parachute jumping.
• As a publicity stunt coordinated by Kansas City radio station KYYS in 1993, the town unofficially took the name of Joe, Montana, after the NFL quarterback Joe Montana.
• Recently, the company sold mostly to ice carvers and supermarkets and supplied the ice for magician David Blaine's stunt in 2000 when he suspended himself in a block of ice over Times Square.
• The temporary city Crush, Texas, located just three miles (5 km) south of West, was the location of The Crash at Crush, a head-on collision between two locomotives that was staged on September 15, 1896, as a publicity stunt for the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad.
• It commemorates a fundraising stunt engineered by Kate Pelham Newcomb, who inspired schoolchildren to collect pennies to raise money for a hospital in Woodruff.
• For the album's tenth anniversary in 2011, Stunt Records rereleased the CD with an expanded booklet and one bonus track - "Nowhere Is Someplace," a song that was originally only released through the band's website in 2001 and on the Making of.
• The first installment in The Santa Clause franchise, it stars Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, an ordinary man who accidentally causes Santa Claus (played by Tim Allen's actual stunt double, Steve Lucescu) to fall from his roof to his supposed death on Christmas Eve.
• The Stunt Man is a 1980 American satirical psychological anti-war action comedy film starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback and Barbara Hershey, and directed by Richard Rush.
• Barnstorming was a form of entertainment in which stunt pilots performed tricks individually or in groups that were called flying circuses.
• A sport kite, also commonly known as a stunt kite, is a type of multiline kite that can be maneuvered in the air.
• The lineup of disc jockeys during this stunt included actress and TV personality Peggy Cass, Alison Steele (who stayed on to become the "Night Bird" on the progressive rock format), Rita Sands (later with WCBS Newsradio 880), Margaret Draper, Ann Clements, Arlene Kieta, Pam McKissick, and Nell Bassett.
• Later, it was released with two other games, Stunt Car Racer and MicroProse Soccer, on the Commodore 64 Powerplay 64 cartridge.
• Stunt performances are highly choreographed and may be rigorously rehearsed for hours, days and sometimes weeks before a performance.
• He admitted the ruse, and was banned for life by the AAU; however, after Lorz apologized for this stunt and it was found he had no intention to defraud, he was reinstated, and won the 1905 Boston Marathon.
• Ormer Leslie "Lock" Locklear (October 28, 1891 – August 2, 1920) was an American daredevil stunt pilot and film actor.
• With the age of commercial flight still a decade or more in the future, Coleman quickly realized that in order to make a living as a civilian aviator she would have to become a "barnstorming" stunt flier, performing dangerous tricks in the air with the then-still-novel technology of airplanes for paying audiences.
• In the movie Sensations of 1945, Hubert Castle plays the role of Olaf, “The Great Gustafson,” who performs a high-wire publicity stunt above the canyon.

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