# teaser

Pronunciation: US say "TEE-zer" /ˈtiːzɚ/; UK say "TEE-zuh" /ˈtiːzə/

## Noun

1. A preview or small piece of a product released ahead of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
   - Simple: A short first look at a new product, such as a short video or song, shared before the main ads.
   - _The studio released a 30-second teaser for the sequel months before the full trailer._
   - _The band posted a teaser of the new single, just the chorus over a black screen._
2. A brief segment shown at the start of a television episode or video, often before the opening titles, to introduce the story and entice viewers to keep watching.
   - Simple: A short part at the start of a TV show that makes you want to watch the rest.
   - _The episode's teaser ends with a scream, and then the opening credits roll._
   - _Every video on her channel starts with a fifteen-second teaser of the best moment._
3. A person who teases others or pokes fun at them.
   - Simple: A person who makes fun of others.
   - _Her older brother was a merciless teaser, and she learned to give as good as she got._
   - _Even the worst teasers in the office went quiet when the boss walked in._
4. A person who excites someone sexually without fulfilling the desire.
   - Simple: Someone who makes another person feel sexual desire, then does not follow through.
   - _She accused him of being a teaser who flirted all evening and then went home alone._
   - _The novel's narrator is a cold-hearted teaser who enjoys the desire she stirs up and grants nothing._
5. In textile work, a person or device that teases fibers.
   - Simple: In making cloth, a person or machine that teases fibers.
   - _The mill's teaser worked through the matted fleece before carding._
   - _The new teaser pulled apart tangled fibers far faster than the two workers who had done the job by hand._
6. A lure, especially a hookless one, used to draw fish toward one or more other lures.
   - Simple: A fake bait, often with no hook, that brings fish closer to other lures.
   - _When a sailfish rose behind the teaser, the mate reeled it away and dropped a bait in front of the fish._
   - _Bright plastic teasers splashed in the wake, but the hooks were on the lures farther back._
7. A short horizontal curtain that hides the flies and frames the top of the inner stage opening, and can be set to any height.
   - Simple: A short curtain across the top of a stage that hides the space above and can move up or down.
   - _The crew lowered the teaser to hide the lights hanging above the set._
   - _With the teaser trimmed higher, the tall staircase finally fit inside the frame._
8. A lure fished together with a bucktail when fishing for fluke.
   - Simple: An extra lure used along with a bucktail when people fish for fluke.
   - _She tied a green teaser a foot above her bucktail and caught three fluke in an hour._
   - _Most of the keeper fluke that morning hit the teaser instead of the bucktail._
9. A shunt winding on field magnets that keeps them magnetized while the main circuit is open.
   - Simple: Extra wire wound around certain magnets to keep them magnetic when the main circuit is off.
   - _With the main circuit open, the teaser kept the field magnets from losing their magnetism._
   - _The technician found that the teaser on the old dynamo had burned out._
10. The worker who stokes the furnace in a glassworks.
   - Simple: A worker who keeps the fire going in the furnace of a glass factory.
   - _The night teaser kept the furnace at full heat so the glassblowers could start at dawn._
   - _Teasers worked in shifts so that the glassworks furnace never cooled._
11. The jaeger, a kind of gull. *(dialectal, UK)*
   - Simple: A kind of gull called the jaeger.
   - _The old fisherman pointed out a teaser wheeling above the harbor._
   - _Teasers harried the smaller gulls all afternoon along the cliffs._
12. Someone who helps the 'Obby 'Oss and goes with it during the May Day celebrations in Padstow, Cornwall. *(UK)*
   - Simple: A helper who goes with the 'Obby 'Oss at the May Day festival in Padstow, Cornwall.
   - _On May Day the teaser stayed close to the 'Obby 'Oss as it moved through the Padstow crowds._
   - _She was proud to be chosen as a teaser for this year's May Day in Padstow._

## Origin

Formed from tease + -er.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/teaser (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).