ectoblaster

A fictional energy weapon designed to destroy or capture ghosts.

Noun

  1. A fictional energy weapon designed to destroy or capture ghosts.
    • A scaly hand grabbed Gloom's ecto-blaster and pulled it from its holster. A second ugly Ghoul examined the weapon closely. - 2010, Andrew Newbound, Ghoul Strike!, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 174:
    • […] whether he's a prize bare-knuckle fighter who'll beat me to paste then chew off my nose, whether he's an ex-Nazi sympathiser with a secret Thule Society ectoblaster instead of a cock[…] - 2011 July 21, Simon...
    • We could use Holtzmann's ecto-blaster thingies right about now. - 2017 July 11, Kevin Hearne, Besieged: Book Nine: Stories from The Iron Druid Chronicles, Del Rey, →ISBN:

Origin

From ecto- + blaster, likely originally coined to describe the "proton packs" and "neutrona wands" in the movie Ghostbusters (1984).

Forms

ectoblasters ecto-blaster