zapper
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
zapper (plural zappers)
- (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
- The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
- A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
- (figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
- 1989, Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
- 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)
- German: Fernbedienung
- Spanish: mando a distancia
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