taser
/ˈteɪzə
/noun trademark
A weapon firing barbs attached by wires to batteries, causing temporary paralysis.The weapon was a taser, a stun gun that temporarily numbs your body with 50,000 volts of energy....
- There was pepper spray, tasers, stun guns, and you know, stuff like that.
- If you want to arm pilots, it would be much smarter to give them billy clubs or tasers.
verb (also tase)
Fire a taser at (someone) in order to incapacitate them temporarily.And hey, if they get out of line, they can always taser them into submission....
- Get out of the car, if you walk, otherwise I'm going to taser you.
- The police must have felt overwhelmed and would naturally need to taser the groom or risk having to use deadly force instead.
Origin
1970s: from the initial letters of Tom Swift's electric rifle (a fictitious weapon), on the pattern of laser.