stunt
A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skillsA daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
» That's just a cheap publicity stunt.
Das ist nur ein billiger Werbegag.
Это просто дешёвый рекламный трюк.
Meaning
7 sensesA daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
Stunt, waghalsiges Kunststück, Trick
трюкtrjuk
a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
(countable, uncountable)A check in growth.
(countable)That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
(countable)A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
(archaic)A skill.
Examples
41 sentencesThat's just a cheap publicity stunt.
ruЭто просто дешёвый рекламный трюк.
deDas ist nur ein billiger Werbegag.
Tom performed all the stunts himself.
ruТом сам исполнил все трюки.
Tom did it as a publicity stunt.
We did that as a publicity stunt.
I don't think that it's just a stunt.
Translations
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Origin
Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone onUnknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).
From dialectal stunt (“stubborn, dwarfed”), from Middle English stont, stunt (“short, brief”), from Old English stunt (“stupid, foolish, simple”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, compact, stupid, dull”). Cognate with Middle High German stunz (“short”), Old Norse stuttr (“short in stature, dwarfed”). Related to Old English styntan (“to make dull, stupefy, become dull, repress”). More at stint.
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