stumper

IPA: stˈʌmpɝ

Examples of "stumper" in Sentences

That was a 'stumper' for the poor woman, who evidently did not understand one half of the sentence.
That was a "stumper" for the poor woman, who evidently did not understand one-half of the sentence.
During a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, Barton smugly posed a "stumper" to Energy Secretary Steve Chu:
He's got every bit as much raw brain power as Bill Clinton, and, I would argue, more skill as a speaker and "stumper" than Bill had as a candidate.
Wow that is a stumper. i figured you had a picture of a "frankenstein" malard that had cross bred with a domestic duck but it definately is not that.
Heinz has made a habit of posing playful questions on its ketchup bottles “Are your french fries lonely?” and the next one may be a stumper: “Guess what my bottle is made of?”
I wonder how much, in 40 or 50 years' time, someone will fork out for Matt Prior's Porsche, the one of which the current England stumper spoke to Sachin Tendulkar at Trent Bridge four summers ago?
Disguise is paramount, and, as yet, the England batsmen, while negating Kumar to some extent by standing down the pitch a more competent stumper than MS Dhoni would stop that soon enough, appear not yet to have broken the code of which way he is going to move the ball.