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stunt woman

stunt woman

noun Movies, Television.
a woman who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.

Origin:
1945–50
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Stunt woman is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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stunt woman

noun
a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable" [syn: double
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