facer

IPA: fˈeɪsɝ

An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
(obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
(obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
A surname.

Examples of "facer" in Sentences

Before he could reply, Ike had another "facer" for him.
"That from you, and in the presence of Weissmann, is a 'facer'!
This would have been a "facer" to any but a true son of Uncle Sam.
It was a facer to me, and with quite a pronounced fellow-feeling for
Now, having proved you can solve any problem, dear blogging friends, I have a real facer for you.
But Mr. Hornaday's reply is such a facer to him and his homocentric theory that he has to do something.
This was what Bertie Wooster would have called “a bit of a facer”; I was groping for an apt response when Clark pressed on.
This was a "facer"; the librarian seemed to have brought up against a stone wall, but she waited, knowing that a situation, unlike a knot, will sometimes untie itself.
In breathless silence the little group of spectators watched his movements, and when, with sharply exhaled breath, he planted a crashing "facer" straight from the shoulder squarely upon the leathern disk they sprang eagerly forward to note the result.