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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a shockingly bad person
2: a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1824 one that shocks; especially something horrifying or offensive (as a sensational film or work of fiction)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. colloq. 1 a shocking, horrifying, unacceptable, etc. person or thing. 2 hist. a sordid or sensational novel etc. 3 a shock absorber.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(shockers) A shocker is something such as a story, a piece of news, or a film that shocks people or that is intended to shock them. (INFORMAL) Marsha Hunt's second novel, 'Free', is a shocker. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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