someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
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an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest
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a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
<noun.communication> he loved to solve chessmate puzzles that's a real puzzler
an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
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a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
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a device for teasing wool
<noun.artifact> a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers
Teaser \Teas"er\, n. 1. One who teases or vexes.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A jager gull. [Prov. Eng.]
3. (Elec.) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
One station left him out of its dramatic "Coming up next!" teaser; the other didn't get around to him until well past the second commercial.
She is, I think, too able to rely upon such constraints. The piece is a teaser.
"Blaze," Paul Newman as Gov. Earl Long in a passionate affair with a strip teaser (Louise Davidovich).
And there's no reason, given the talent and motivation, that you can't do the same." In Florida, Merrill has been running ads with the teaser: "Where else could you get a $100,000 bonus for just doing a good job?"
For starters, it is hyping the product with 15-second teaser commercials this week, urging people to watch the Miss America pageant this Saturday and learn about a "revolution" in pantyhose.
The PepsiCo Inc. division plans to run a "teaser" commercial to generate interest in the new ads beginning this Sunday.
The ad slogan, "He only comes out at night," is a teaser to lure people back to the bus stops after dusk.
While Mazda won't disclose its media budget for the teaser campaign, it ran teasers nearly every day for three weeks, mostly during prime-time programs.
But then there is the diplomatic teaser that, if they are as mustard-keen as they appear to secure the siting of this worthy institution on home turf, it would be a tall order to expect to be granted a countryman as the first president into the bargain.
Household Finance Co., a unit of Household International Co., experiments with different-colored envelopes and snazzy teaser copy to get consumers to open its mailings.