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sticker shock
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sticker shocknoun
Disgust, shock, or fright upon learning the price of an item offered for sale.
Etymology: Coined circa 1981.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sticker shock in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sticker shock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of sticker shock in a Sentence
They are experiencing quite a bit of sticker shock because what they see on Instagram or TikTok, they have no idea what it costs.
It's a sticker shock when you actually have to pay the real value of something.
There is a kind of sticker shock that sellers may have right now, even if they may have thought about selling a couple years ago, to look at where the market is now can be surprising.
Sticker shock for sure. This was about as bad as it could be.
America has a problem with the high cost of prescription medicines, we're all trying to understand the sticker shock that many drugs generate -- especially when some of those drugs have been around for a long time.
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