stemwinder
or stem-wind·er
a stemwinding watch.
Older Slang.
something remarkable of its kind.
a rousing speech, especially a stirring political address.
a stirring orator.
Origin of stemwinder
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How to use stemwinder in a sentence
It was an old-fashioned stemwinder in an era of YouTube coolness.
Joe Biden’s Visceral Politics on Display in NAACP Speech | Howard Kurtz | July 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFormer Mayor Marc Morial, now national head of the Urban League, gave a stemwinder that went over well.
British Dictionary definitions for stem-winder
a watch wound by an expanded crown on the bar projecting outside the case, as opposed to one wound by a separate key: Also called: stem-winding watch
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