stonker
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stonker (plural stonkers)
- (British, slang) Something highly impressive.
- Every record he played was a stonker.
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stonker (third-person singular simple present stonkers, present participle stonkering, simple past and past participle stonkered)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, transitive) To defeat decisively; to trounce.
- Synonym: stonk
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, transitive) To baffle or dumbfound.
- Synonym: snooker
- 2018, Arthur W. Upfield, Kees de Hoog, Up and Down Australia Again:
- This sort of stonkers me, but I says to him: […]