TEASER

teaser

(noun) a device for teasing wool; “a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers”

tormenter, tormentor, teaser

(noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

teaser

(noun) an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show

puzzle, puzzler, mystifier, teaser

(noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; “he loved to solve chessmate puzzles”; “that’s a real puzzler”

teaser

(noun) an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers’ interest

tease, teaser, annoyer, vexer

(noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

teaser

(noun) a worker who teases wool

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

teaser (plural teasers)

One who teases or pokes fun.

Synonym: tease

(textile treatment) A person or thing that teases.

(marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.

Coordinate terms: trailer (film), preview

(UK, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger.

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

The stoker of a glassworks furnace.

(theatre) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.

Anagrams

• Easter, Teresa, aretes, arsete, arêtes, asteer, earset, easter, eaters, ratees, reseat, saeter, seater, staree, teares

Source: Wiktionary

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Teas"er, n.

1. One who teases or vexes.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A jager gull. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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