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sticker shock

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  1. sticker shocknoun

    Disgust, shock, or fright upon learning the price of an item offered for sale.

  2. Etymology: Coined circa 1981.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sticker shock in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sticker shock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of sticker shock in a Sentence

  1. Oniki Hardtman:

    They are experiencing quite a bit of sticker shock because what they see on Instagram or TikTok, they have no idea what it costs.

  2. Kate Bahn:

    It's a sticker shock when you actually have to pay the real value of something.

  3. Krishna Rao:

    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.

  4. Derek Holt:

    Sticker shock for sure. This was about as bad as it could be.

  5. Chuck Grassley:

    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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