The word "shocker" is a correct and usable word in English.
It can be used to describe something that is surprising or unexpected, usually in a negative way. For example, "The election results were a real shocker no one saw coming".
Brengle's run to the semi-finals on the indoor clay in Stuttgart was a shocker; her losses this spring to Serena Williams, Keys, Petkovic and Kerber rather less so.
His ears prick up, however, when he encounters Robert Bloch's Freudian gore-transvestite-incest-necrophilia shocker Psycho, which horrifies everyone he shows it to, but which might give him the edge he needs in his private war with French director Henri-Georges Clouzot, whose Les Diaboliques has critics talking of "French Hitchcocks" and similar rot.
He was truly an instinctive actor: the production turned out to be a shocker.
So far, so similar to every other sleepover shocker.
"Not really a haircut, more of a memorial to the unknown hairdresser who died half-way through the job," said the inimitable Arnd Zeigler about this shocker from Javier Pinola.
Still, Labour's defeat was no shocker.
It does not itself look like a probable shocker for its Asian neighbours.The Chinese questionA better place to look for such a shocker is China.
HERE'S a shocker: America's Transportation Security Agency is using the threat of up-close-and-personal pat downs to force passengers to go through the controversial new "backscatter" full body scanners that have already been installed at many US airports.
AFTER the shocker in Massachusetts, many Democratic congressmen are wondering how their vote on health-care reform will affect their chances come November.
After all, the map is his baby, and the new congressmen will owe him their jobs.The ruling was no shocker.
The shocker, for me, has been the development since 2004 of a stalemated national argument over whether or not torture is wrong; there are a lot of other examples to choose from.
