on stun
English
Prepositional phrase
- (science fiction) An intensity setting of the fictional phaser energy weapon, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69), which non-lethally stuns its target.[1]
- 1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:
- Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."
- (idiomatic, informal) (usually after a plural noun), to a degree that is stunning.
- 2020 September 28, The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel Maddow (actor):
- It's all happening at once, right? All news streams on stun. Everything happening at the same time.
References
- Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “phaser, n.”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 145.
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