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Definition of Shockers
1. shocker [n] - See also: shocker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shockers
Literary usage of Shockers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-two by William Wallace Cook, Editor Company (1912)
"... THRILLS AND DOLLAR shockers. The word "sensational" as applied to fiction has
been burdened with an opprobrium which does not rightfully belong to it. ..."
2. Heretics by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1905)
"... can be innocent) have expressed a grave astonishment that the masses prefer
shilling shockers to scientific treatises and melodramas to problem plays. ..."
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