corker

noun

ˈkȯr-kər How to pronounce corker (audio)
Definition of corkernext
as in beauty
something very good of its kind that last race was a real corker!

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Recent Examples of corker The breakfast buffet is supremely surreal A big part of every season of The White Lotus is the breakfast buffet, and the Martinez’s daily extravaganza is a corker. — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2026 Penned by Aaron Sorkin, this corker of a suspense film stars Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon and more. — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025 The second number of the show was, if not as much of a surprise, equally a corker… and a thematically appropriate choice for the followup choice in the set. — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025 Anyway, Breville doles out sales sparingly, and this little corker is $50 off for the spring sale. — Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for corker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corker
  1. beauty
  2. dream
  3. humdinger
  4. beaut
  5. doozy
  6. marvel
  7. ripper
  8. phenomenon
Noun
  • The beauty of the property itself affords endless opportunities to stop and admire, and provide context for the great artist's oeuvre.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The Historic Festival brings together a diverse field of historic racing machines for a Labor Day Weekend celebration of speed, sound and beauty with classes that range from pre-war open-wheel cars to the sports and formula cars of the postwar era.
    — Mark Maglio, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of beauty
Noun
  • Each vignette of time reveals how time, our upbringing, and even our individual dreams shape the path of our lives and who ultimately ends up beside us for the ride.
    — Emmalee Reed, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
  • In childhood, in adulthood, in her old age, Evans was besotted by dreams, turbulent, awesome, pictorial dreams.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of dream
Noun
  • Presented in a woodland forest, today’s Chanel couture show was a real humdinger.
    — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 7 July 2026
  • The book is full of many such humdingers.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Definition of humdinger
Noun
  • As of April the Four Seasons Hotels and Residences has officially planted its flag in Cartagena, and its debut is a beaut.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026
  • As for the performance T-shirts in the lineup, the oversized, moisture-wicking beauts are meant to turn heads in their color-happy Turmeric iteration.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
Definition of beaut
Noun
  • Twenty years before her great-grandfather opened the boat tours, the waterway was a highway for loggers, but the logjam of 1886 was a doozy.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The most significant injury of training camp was a doozy and came on the very first day, when second-year pass rusher Nic Scourton tore up his knee July 23 and was soon declared out for the season.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of doozy
Noun
  • Here, age-old traditions fuse with contemporary flavors, archaeological marvels meet modernist museums, rugged peaks are juxtaposed against verdant plains, and stretches of sandy shorelines lead to charming inland villages.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
  • In 1959, Disneyland debuted an attraction that was, at the time, a technical and fantastical marvel.
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of marvel
Noun
  • The biggest chase of all is the Black bordered one-of-ones, which has been prone to catch pack rippers off guard as they’re focused on adding to their sticker books.
    — Andrew Mackie, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • Quinn Hughes’ ripper allowed the Americans to advance.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
Definition of ripper
Noun
  • The weather phenomenon has been known to intensify the yearly Harmattan winds, which dry out topsoil and cause pods to fall.
    — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The 10-sided phenomenon appears to have formed over the planet’s south pole recently, but no one is quite sure why.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of phenomenon

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