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shock tactics en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) Tactics that are intended to shock and push outside the comfort zone.
    • To their critics, the YBAs, with their emphasis on sex, sensationalism and shock tactics, were doing little more than copying the tactics of the ad agencies. 2015, Dominic Sandbrook, The Great British Dream Factory, Penguin, published 2016, page 110: