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Teaser   /tˈizər/   Listen
Teaser

noun
1.
A worker who teases wool.
2.
Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).  Synonyms: annoyer, tease, vexer.
3.
An advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest.
4.
A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution.  Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, puzzler.  "That's a real puzzler"
5.
An attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show.
6.
A flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings.  Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor.
7.
A device for teasing wool.



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"Teaser" Quotes from Famous Books



... and yanked him out of trouble. | | | |It was this way: Judge, first man up in the fourth, | |singled to center. Shanks was hit on the wrist and | |Jamieson laid a bunt half an inch from the third | |base line, filling the bases. Henry spun a teaser | |right in front of the plate and Nunamacher made a | |quick play by grabbing the ball and forcing Judge | |out as he was about to score. The base line circuit | |was still playing to S. R. O. McBride rapped a | |hopper down ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... he begged me to carry him to the Duchess of Hamilton, to beg her pardon again. I did on purpose to see how the blunderbuss behaved himself; but I begged the Duchess to use him mercifully, for she is the devil of a teaser. The good of it is, she ought to beg his pardon, for he meant no harm; yet she would not allow him to put in an advertisement to clear himself from hers, though hers was all a lie. He appealed to me, and I gravely gave it against him. I was at Court to-day, and the foreign Ministers have got ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... easy enough to play under all ordinary circumstances, but a "teaser" when tremendous issues are at stake, has defeated one of the Etonians. The last man runs towards the pitch through a perfect ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell
... they were frivolous, but like most other lads in the army, they had grown into the habit of teasing one another, which was often a relief to teaser ...
— The Sword of Antietam • Joseph A. Altsheler
... chewed gum as he entered the box and faced little McDornick, champion base runner of the Camdens. McDornick was palpitating with eagerness to hit the ball. He hated to let the first one pass, although Dayguild sent in a wide teaser. He went for the second one, and hammered it out for two bags, although with an ordinary runner it would have been no ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish


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