stun baton

1. 1.

   a weapon designed to disable a victim temporarily by delivering a nonlethal high-voltage electric shock

   Synonymsstun gun

   Broaderweapon

Questions about stun baton

What does stun baton mean?

stun baton means "a weapon designed to disable a victim temporarily by delivering a nonlethal high-voltage electric shock".

What is another word for stun baton?

Close synonyms include stun gun. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stun baton a common word?

stun baton is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.