stunt man
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- noun
- /stʌnt mæn/
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- The stunt man performed an incredible jump from the building into the safety net below.
Examples
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In the movie, the stunt man seamlessly executed all the dangerous action sequences.
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Do the stuff for real like the originals: real stunt men doing real stunts, and only use CGI sparingly for minor effects and cleanup.
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A lot of the stuff the stunt men put together themselves.
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We had no stunt men really in this picture.
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My name is Dave, and I am the stunt man.
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Director, we've found the stunt man.
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It's a stunt man driving that car, and he wasn't allowed to.
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My dad's a stunt man.
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No problem, I'll try my best to be the stunt man for Sister Cuckoo.
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Which brings us to the second star... a stunt man, former race driver Colin Seagrave.
Synonyms
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A person who does dangerous actions in films or shows to entertain people
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Morphology
The meaning 'a man who performs dangerous or unusual acts' is directly and compositionally derived from 'stunt' (a dangerous/unusual act) + 'man' (an adult male) via a regular agent-noun compound pattern. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common morphological construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Stunt man comes from the word stunt, meaning a dangerous or skillful trick, and man, the person who does it. In early films and in the circus, people did these risky tricks instead of the actors, so stunt man came to mean 'a man who performs dangerous acts for actors'.