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Shocker

noun

A shockingly bad person.

A sensational message (in a film or play or novel).

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"Shocker" Quotes from Famous Books

... a poet, or a shilling shocker, or a reporter, or anything of that kind, I might be satisfactory, but that, to gain any position as a Thames angler, would require more play of fancy, more power of invention than ...

— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome

... related how he had been attacked by two of his former school enemies, dragged to the car and thrown in. He added that he had been next to unconscious, and so was unable to fight off Dave and Phil. Then he asked how Tom Shocker happened ...

— Dave Porter at Star Ranch - Or, The Cowboy's Secret • Edward Stratemeyer

... her dress she went downstairs to have her supper with Mr. and Mrs. Hose thinking all the while of what she had seen. When supper was over, she went upstairs and took from her trunk a "shilling shocker" and began to read it. Presently she got tired and ...

— Daisy Ashford: Her Book • Daisy Ashford

... among the Titans who number less than the fingers on God's hand, it will be because you cannot divorce the sublime beauty of "Life and Death" from the coyotes and the jackals that run rampant through the pages of Brann the shocker of the ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... strong in her face, and he knew the Maori had got the better of everything, husband and friends and all. He gave a little cry, and in a minute he had her on her feet and was bringing her back to the carriage. Some folks thought Dick Burdas a rough hard man, and I know he was a shocker of a lad (he was fra Whitby), but that night he cried like a baby when he tell 't me," and Mrs. Bentley fell for a moment into the ...

— Stories by English Authors: Orient • Various