zapper
Pronunciation
  • (British) enPR: zăpʹə(r), IPA: /ˈzæp.ə(ɹ)/
Noun

zapper (plural zappers)

  1. (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
    The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
  2. A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
  3. (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 […]
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