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English

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Noun

  1. A person or thing that teases
  2. A short film or quote meant to draw an audience to a film or show.


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Translations

ru:teaser ta:teaser vi:teaser

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Teaser \Teas"er\, n.
1. One who teases or vexes.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Zool.) A jager gull. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]

3. (Elec.) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining
their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet teaser
n 1: a worker who teases wool
2: someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring
curiosity) [syn: tease, annoyer, 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; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles";
"that's a real puzzler" [syn: puzzle, puzzler, mystifier]
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 [syn: tormenter, tormentor]
7: a device for teasing wool; "a teaser is used to disentangle
the fibers"
Moby Dictionary
Artful Dodger , Casanova , Circe , Don Juan , Gordian knot , Lorelei ,
Machiavel , Machiavelli , Machiavellian , Parthenope , Siren , act drop ,
actor , annoyer , asbestos , asbestos board , backdrop , badgerer ,
bamboozler , batten , befuddler , beguiler , border , bully , charmer ,
cloth , coquette , coulisse , counterfeiter , counterweight , crux ,
curtain , curtain board , cyclorama , deceiver , decor , deluder ,
dilemma , dissembler , dissimulator , dodger , double-dealer , drop ,
drop curtain , duper , ecdysiast , enchanter , enchantress , enigma ,
enticer , entrancer , faker , femme fatale , fire curtain , flat ,
flipper , flirt , fooler , forger , gay deceiver , hanging , harasser ,
harrier , heckler , hoaxer , hypnotizer , inveigler , jilt , jilter ,
joker , jokester , kidder , knot , knotty point , leg-puller ,
mesmerizer , misleader , nag , node , nodus , nonplus , nudnik , nudzh ,
oxymoron , paradox , peeler , perplexity , persecutor , pest , pesterer ,
plagiarist , plagiarizer , plaguer , playactor , pons asinorum , poser ,
practical joker , puzzle , quandary , rag , ragger , role-player ,
sadist , scene , scenery , screen , seducer , seductress , side scene ,
siren , spoofer , stage screw , stripper , striptease , tab , tableau ,
tease , tempter , temptress , torment , tormentor , transformation ,
transformation scene , vamp , vampire , vexed question , wing , wingcut ,
woodcut


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