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shock2, n. 1. bunch, stand, cluster, clump, tussock, hassock, stack, cock, rick, sheaf, mow, Brit, stook.
2. thatch, mass, pile, mop, mane, crop; tuft, hank, lock, knot, forelock, cowlick.
shocking, adj. 1. surprising, astonishing, startling, astounding, electrifying, striking, amazing; unexpected, sudden, without notice or warning, like a bolt from the blue, incredible, breath-taking, stunning, paralyzing, stupefying, mind-boggling, Inf. mind-blowing.
2. horrifying, abominable, terrible, horrible, frightful, appalling, monstrous, awful; grisly, abhorrent, hideous, ghastly; fearful, direful, dreadful, horrid, horrific, dire, Inf. god-awful.
3. disgusting, offensive, outrageous, disgraceful, reprehensible, odious, revolting, obnoxious, repugnant, loathsome, repulsive; scandalous, lamentable, in poor taste, vulgar, shameless, intolerable, out of line, insufferable, unheard-of.
shoddy, n. 1. imitation, imposter, dummy, pinchbeck, junk, plastic, tinsel, tickytacky, brummagem, bastard, whited or painted sepulcher; sham, deception, hoax, mockery, mock, make-believe, Inf. put-on, Inf. whitewash job; forgery, counterfeit, spurious article, fraud, Inf. fake, Inf. phony; cheat, swindle, Inf. flam, Inf. flimflam, SI. rip-off, SI. gyp, SI. sell.
2. pretense, pretension, false pretense, simulation, dissimulation, dissemblance, dissembling, feigning; hypocrisy, insincerity, mere show, bluff, false front or appearance, facade, Inf. front, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry; claptrap, humbug, hum-buggery, cant, bunkum, SI. bunk, moonshine, eyewash, hogwash, Inf. bosh, Inf. gammon, SI. hooey, SI. hoke or hokum, SI. bull, SI. baloney; deceit, dishonesty, fraudulence, fraudulency, Inf. fakery; trick, artifice, stratagem, deception, disguise.
-adj. 3. imitation, artificial, sham, mock, pinchbeck, brummagem, bastard, quasi, pseudo, feigned, simulated, pretended; plastic, tawdry, tinsel, SI. tickytacky; meretricious, pretentious, showy, gaudy, flashy, flash; deceptive, tricky, specious, misleading, colorable, sophisticated, sophisticate; spurious, bogus, counterfeit, illegitimate, forged, false, fraudulent, fictitious, trumped-up, Inf. fake, Inf. phony.
shoe, n. 1. footwear, footgear, sandal, slipper, oxford, brogue, brogan, blucher, sabot; buskin, chopine, balmoral, boot; loafer, moccasin, bootee; clog, pump, Trademark. Mary Janes; house slipper, scuff, mule; tennis shoe, sneak, sneakers; clodhoppers, SI. gunboats, dancing slippers, ballerinas, spikes, Inf. high-heels, Inf lowheels, Inf. flats.
2. fill [s.o.'s] shoes substitute for, Inf. sub for, fill in for, double for, stand or sit in for, Inf. pinch-hit, Inf. cover for; replace, supplant, supersede, succeed, take the place of, step into the shoes of.
3. ferrule, plate, cap, rim, boot, brake, runner, drag, skid.
shoemaker, n. bootmaker, booter, cobbler, shoe builder, Crispin, Scot. and North Eng. souter.
shoestring, n. 1. shoelace, lace, tie, thong, fastener, Archaic, latchet.
2. pittance, trifling amount, a string and a prayer, little bit, tight budget, next to nothing, mere subsistence, small change, nickles and dimes, pennies, scratch, SI. peanuts, SI. chicken feed, SI. small potatoes; slave wages, meager earnings, barely enough to scrape or get by on, not enough to live on; mite, modicum, barely anything.
shoot, v. 1. hit, wound, hurt, harm, damage, injure; shoot down, bring down, drop, fell; riddle, SI.
pump full of lead, SI. zap, pick off; kill, slay, SI.
knock off, SI. snuff out.
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