zapper
A remote control for a television.
Noun
- A remote control for a television.
- The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
- A device that electrifies or electrocutes.
- Miranda is not the sort of person to carry a zapper but she has an oar that would cause a dog a lot more grief if it caught it full on. - 2005, Robert Wood, Pushing Envelopes, page 51:
Hyponyms: bug zapper
- Anything that exterminates.
- If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick […] - 1989, Microtimes, volume 6, page 140:
- You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper. - 2009, Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love:
- A microwave oven.
- I hate to spoil your microwave testimonial, but they were actually cooked in the regular oven this morning and just re-heated in the zapper. - 2011, Bob Cohn, To Catch a Catch, page 49:
Origin
Etymology tree English zap Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English zapper From zap + -er.