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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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He can help that process by putting in a stormer on Sunday.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2023

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

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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