zapper

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈzæp.ə(ɹ)/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A remote control for a television. colloquial
    — The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
  2. A device that electrifies or electrocutes. colloquial
    — 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.
  3. Anything that exterminates. broadly,colloquial,figuratively
    — 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 […]
  4. A microwave oven. slang
    — 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.

词形变化

zappers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
like a bug to a zapper

词源

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.
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