2018, Sandeep Jauhar,Heart: a History,→ISBN, page173:
But as was the case with pacemakers, external defibrillators were unwieldy, and theshocks they delivered—in the rare cases when patients were still conscious—were painful.
(psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
Fans were inshock in the days following the singer's death.
2008,Wally Lamb,The Hour I First Believed, Ch.5, at p.112:
". . . Maureen, I don't feel sad. I don't feel anything. What's wrong with me?" "Nothing, Cae," she said. "You just haven't been able to take it in yet. Absorb theshock of it."
We're bonin' on the dark blocks / Wearin' out theshocks, wettin' up the dashboard clock
1994,Cycle World Magazine, volume33, number 1, page49:
At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mountedshock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos.
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2018,Tim Flannery,Europe: A Natural History, page44:
It takes more than two gigapascals (two billion pascals) of pressure toshock quartz in this manner (for comparison, the atmosphere at sea level exerts a little over 100,000 pascals of pressure).
(commerce,dated) Alot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in someBaltic ports toloosegoods.
(by extension) Atuft orbunch of something, such as hair or grass.
His head boasted ashock of sandy hair.
1968 October 12, Paul Zindel, chapter 12, inThe Pigman:
Every now and then I’m startled at how good-looking John is, but he glared at me from under theshock of hair that fell across his brow and scared me a little.
2019, Hal Y. Zhang,Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother, Brooklyn, NY: Radix Media,→ISBN, page 2:
On day three I pointed at the edge of an intricate pentagram peeking above hershock of oily black hair.
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