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teaser

noun
TEE-zer/ˈtiːzɚ/UKTEE-zuh/ˈtiːzə/

Pluralteasers

12 meanings of teaser

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  1. 1
    nouncountable
    A short first look at a new product, such as a short video or song, shared before the main ads.

    The game company shared a short teaser online.

    Fans watched the teasers over and over, looking for clues.

    Similarpreview, taster

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  2. 2
    nouncountable
    A short part at the start of a TV show that makes you want to watch the rest.

    I missed the teaser, so I didn't know why the house was on fire.

    The teaser was so exciting that we watched the whole show.

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  3. 3
    nouncountable
    A person who makes fun of others.

    My uncle is a terrible teaser and always jokes about my haircut.

    The teasers in class left him alone once he started laughing along.

    Similartease

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  4. 4
    nouncountable
    Someone who makes another person feel sexual desire, then does not follow through.

    After the third date ended at the door, she started to think he was a teaser.

    Nobody likes a teaser who flirts all night and then leaves.

    Similartease

  5. 5
    noun
    In making cloth, a person or machine that teases fibers.

    A teaser at the mill got the wool ready to be spun.

    The old wool teasers still sit in the factory museum.

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  6. 6
    nouncountable
    A fake bait, often with no hook, that brings fish closer to other lures.

    We pulled a shiny teaser behind the boat to call the fish up.

    The fish chased the teaser, then bit the lure next to it.

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  7. 7
    nouncountable
    A short curtain across the top of a stage that hides the space above and can move up or down.

    The teaser hid the lights over the stage.

    They raised the teaser so everyone could see the tall tree in the play.

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  8. 8
    nouncountable
    An extra lure used along with a bucktail when people fish for fluke.

    Dad tied a teaser above the bucktail, and the fluke started biting.

    This fluke took the teaser, not the bucktail.

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  9. 9
    nouncountable
    Extra wire wound around certain magnets to keep them magnetic when the main circuit is off.

    Even with the main switch off, the teaser keeps the magnets charged.

    The old machine's teaser had a broken wire.

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  10. 10
    nouncountable
    A worker who keeps the fire going in the furnace of a glass factory.

    The teaser put more fuel on the fire at the glass factory.

    My great-grandfather was a teaser at the old glassworks.

    Similarstoker

  11. 11
    noundialectalUKcountable
    A kind of gull called the jaeger.

    A teaser flew low over the beach.

    We watched two teasers chase the terns over the bay.

    Similarjaeger

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  12. 12
    nounUKcountable
    A helper who goes with the 'Obby 'Oss at the May Day festival in Padstow, Cornwall.

    The teaser walked beside the 'Obby 'Oss all through the May Day parade.

    My cousin was a teaser at Padstow last May Day.

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Origin

It is made from tease + -er.