Usually means: Psychological trauma from wartime experiences.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. shell shock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shell shock: Merriam-Webster
  3. shell shock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shell shock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shell shock: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shell shock: Vocabulary.com
  7. shell-shock: Wordnik
  8. shell shock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shell-shock, shell shock: Wiktionary
  10. shell shock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shell shock: Dictionary.com
  12. Shell Shock (Part I), Shell Shock (Part II), Shell Shock (film), Shell Shock, Shell-shock, Shell shock (disambiguation), Shell shock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. shell shock: Rhymezone
  14. shell shock: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shell shock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shell shock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shell shock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. shell shock: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Shell shock, Shock, shell: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. shell shock: Medical dictionary
  6. Shell shock, Shock, shell: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shell shock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Shell Shock: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shell_shocks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shell shock)

noun:  (figuratively) A stunning shock.
noun:  (uncountable) A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle; it is not a current diagnosis in medicine, but it corresponds largely with the current diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.
noun:  A person with the condition.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shell, shock.
verb:  To stun or debilitate as by a shock.

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