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noun

Teaser n.

One who teases or vexes.

(Zool.) A jager gull. (Prov. Eng.)

(Elec.) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.

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Etymology of 'Teaser'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Teaser" Quotes from Famous Books

... were I'd never have found you here," said Frank, shortly, in reply; which at once turned the tide in his favor and diverted the ridicule from himself to his teaser, who was seized by some of his comrades and carried off with much laughter and slapping ...

— Two Little Confederates • Thomas Nelson Page

... replied, "but she's a teaser. Even old Tim Shearer would have a picnic to make out just where the key-logs are. We've started her three times, but she's plugged tight every trip. Likely to pull almost ...

— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White

... of satisfaction to the curious practitioner, who likes to give the right Latin name to one's complaint; not quite so satisfactory to the patient, as it is not so very much pleasanter to be bitten by a dog with a collar round his neck telling you that he is called Snap or Teaser, than by a dog without a collar. Sometimes, in fact, one would a little rather not know the exact name of his complaint, as if he does he is pretty sure to look it out in a medical dictionary, and then if he reads, This terrible disease is attended with vast suffering and is inevitably ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Words linked to "Teaser" : advertizing, mystifier, tormenter, advertizement, ad, colloquialism, brain-teaser, unwelcome person, tease, acrostic, advertisement, persona non grata, annoyer, tormentor, word square