standpatter

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Noun
  • With his piano-pounding performances, wild vocals, bouffant hair and makeup, Little Richard burst onto the musical scene in the 1950s and shook up the stuffed shirts with a string of his hit songs that got both black and white people dancing.
    NBC News, NBC News, 9 May 2020
  • Karen Knorr’s photos of the private members’ clubs of London in the early 1980s are full of stuffed shirts wearing gleaming brogues.
    The Economist, The Economist, 25 Feb. 2020
Noun
  • The decoy unfolds from a compact square box and inflates into a full-size F-35 replica within minutes.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Going back to the novel-shredding analogy, imagine trying to reassemble the book after it was shredded into pieces only 1 centimeter square rather than 5.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Standpatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standpatter. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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