Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who substitutes for a performer in scenes requiring physical daring or involving physical risk.
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- noun In films, someone who performs
stunts that are deemed too dangerous or physically difficult for the main actors to attempt.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mostly we played "stuntman" and pretended to be shot and then fall off the roof.
Bad toys. Really bad toys. Ann Althouse 2006
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Pioneering transplant turned Jamie Reece into 'stuntman'
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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I like the antics and the stunts, it does add some colour, but in the very fact that so many people who have written to Nick regarding not just water, but an issue of national radiation contamination - no reply - does indeed add weight to your statements that our 'stuntman' is being directed by parochial interests and is not stunting on behalf of the long term common good … sigh sigh!!!
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Now their sickly little boy, who had been in and out of hospital since he was two months old, is a healthy five-year-old with so much energy they have nicknamed him '' stuntman ''.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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What kind of stuntman can afford a luxurious condo overlooking the sea?
NAACHGAANA 2009
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The photographic 'stuntman' who asks viewers to take a leap of faith in his art
Home | Mail Online 2009
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A doctor, Janna (Kristine Van Pellicom) tries to get him to get treatment for his disorder, but Diego/Tony hated his loser life and is enjoying being a stuntman and chick magnet.
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He starts calling himself “Tony T, as in TNT, boom baby!” and becomes a devil-may-care stuntman.
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He was an unhappy loser living with his mother, also a pathetic depressive, always overshadowed by his stuntman brother Cisse (Robbie Cleiren).
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Dirty Mind, a Belgian drama about a stuntman who gets a frontal lobe injury and turns from zero into Rico Suave.
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