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stormer

British  
/ ˈstɔːmə /

noun

  1. informal an outstanding example of its kind

    that film was a real stormer

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Dominic Calvert-Lewin is looking stronger now - that Brighton game was his fourth start in a row after an injury-hit season - while Dwight McNeil had a stormer against the Seagulls.

From BBC May 11, 2023

Even before his magnificent try he was having a stormer.

From BBC Nov. 7, 2021

Top of our list, however, is this free-kick, a genuine Barnes stormer: it may not be the best, but it hit all the right spots.

From The Guardian Aug. 13, 2010

"Viscount Nelson has run a stormer and we'll look at the French Derby with him," O'Brien said.

From The Guardian May 22, 2010

With all the chivalric clash of the stormer of Stony Point, he has a cooler head, with a capacity for larger plans, and the steady nerve to execute whatever he conceives.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various

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