Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zapper

/ˈzæp.ə(ɹ)/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables: zap-per
IPA: /ˈzæp.ə(ɹ)/

19

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A remote control for a television.

Colloquial

noun

A device that electrifies or electrocutes.

Colloquial

noun

Anything that exterminates.

Colloquial

noun

A microwave oven.

Slang

Example Sentences

"The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper."
"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."
"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 […]"
"You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper."
"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."

Etymology

From zap + -er.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈzæp.ə(ɹ)/

Usage

Inflected Forms

zappers (plural)

Phrases

like a bug to a zapper

Rhymes With

rapper wrapper snapper trapper clapper dapper flapper capper sapper slapper scrapper crapper

Questions

How do you pronounce zapper?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈzæp.ə(ɹ)/.
What does zapper mean?: A remote control for a television.
Where does zapper come from?: From zap + -er.

How to pronounce zapper

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