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  • noun UK, slang Something highly impressive.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, as far as everybody else is concerned, this staging of Arthur Miller's postwar drama about a grieving family coming to terms with a profiteering father's guilt, was a 24-carat stonker.

    What to say about ... All My Sons 2010

  • Scunthorpe 1-1 Man United (Gibson 22 ') And that too is a stonker!

    Scunthorpe v Manchester United - as it happened 2010

  • The Blu-ray offering sounds like it's going to be a stonker.

    Filmstalker: Stalked: Blu-ray releases for 300, Watchmen Director's Cut and Towering Inferno! 2009

  • Fallen Dragon is Peter F Hamilton's first full size stand alone novel since The Nano Flower and a stonker of a story.

    Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton Mark 2007

  • For their parents, Vietnam veteran Ray and his wife Renee, life on their failing farm is becoming a battle against mounting debts and bank foreclosure but they have ridden the storms seemingly well until the stonker of a real blizzard that's heading their way on Christmas Eve provides the setting for everything else to unravel.

    44 entries from December 2007 2007

  • Fallen Dragon is Peter F Hamilton's first full size stand alone novel since The Nano Flower and a stonker of a story.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Mark 2007

  • For their parents, Vietnam veteran Ray and his wife Renee, life on their failing farm is becoming a battle against mounting debts and bank foreclosure but they have ridden the storms seemingly well until the stonker of a real blizzard that's heading their way on Christmas Eve provides the setting for everything else to unravel.

    A Town Called Immaculate 2007

  • Gee whiz that must have been a stonker of a grump - to maintain that level of rage in order to dismantle a house ... didn't he stop for one minute and think "hey - this is bonkers"? crikey.

    The Wisdom of Solomon...ish Newmania 2007

  • For their parents, Vietnam veteran Ray and his wife Renee, life on their failing farm is becoming a battle against mounting debts and bank foreclosure but they have ridden the storms seemingly well until the stonker of a real blizzard that's heading their way on Christmas Eve provides the setting for everything else to unravel.

    A Town Called Immaculate 2007

  • Tim Lee has a stonker of a post on Ars Technica drawing parallels between copyright today and property rights debates of the 18th and 19th centuries in the US.

    The Copyright Emperor Has No Clothes glyn moody 2008

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