joy buzzer

American  

noun

1. a device used for a practical joke with a handshake, concealed in the palm of the hand and producing a buzzing sound and an unpleasant vibrating sensation when it is pressed against the victim's hand.

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Example Sentences

Look at the way he makes sure his henchman sees the joy buzzer in his hand: He wants everyone to share in the fun, except for the people he electrocutes.

From Slate

While Michael Keaton held his own as Batman, Jack Nicholson showed that villains have more fun with his freewheeling turn as the Joker, gleefully squirting acid from his lapel flower and electrocuting people with his joy buzzer.

From Los Angeles Times

Are you Thomas Edison with his light bulb, or Soren Sorenson Adams and his joy buzzer?

From New York Times

This is not, in Foster's words, "a $20 million nightmare"; her directorial hand does not conceal a joy buzzer.

From Time Magazine Archive

For him�as for Lenny Bruce, the pioneer of Savonarola satire, and Pryor's only true antecedent�profanity serves to give both a salty rhythm to his sentences and a Joy Buzzer shock to his more refeened listeners.

From Time Magazine Archive