stunrod

English

Etymology

From stun +‎ rod.

Noun

stunrod (plural stunrods)

1. (science fiction) A baton that delivers an electric shock upon striking someone or something.
   • 2007, Kristin Landon, The Hidden Worlds‎^[1], →ISBN, page 147:

     Outside stood two tall men, anonymous in black shock armor, their stunrods loose in their hands.

   • 2016 July 8, Fey Truet, Altered World‎^[2], →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     They sentenced him to the Gate a little while after I moved over there, and, when he figured out I was there as well, he and his little band of delinquent Enforcers used their authority to make my life Hell. Any little thing, and at every petty little turn, if I did something he disapproved of, which was everything, he'd set his stunrod on low and hit me.

   • 2017 September 19, Ryan Graudin, Invictus‎^[3], →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     She saw Ackerman's stunrod before she saw him.