zap
verb (used with object)
to bombard with electrical current, radiation, laser beams, etc..
zapper
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a word derived from
zap.
Example Sentences
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The other night he rolled into the second half of Argentina’s group-stage closer against Jordan and delivered a free kick zapper that sent the Jerrydome into rapture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The windows are shut tight and the sound of work is peppered with the staccato crackle of insects meeting their maker against the electrical fly zapper.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
A hot item for both military and civilian use being sold at the expo was the HH-SP1 counter-drone zapper that the manufacturer says is capable of knocking out intruding drones within a nearly two-mile radius.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
Whenever the moth speaks, we see him swell in size like a sound wave anthropomorphized; under his voice we hear a scritchy noise that, comic-cruelly, brings to mind a bug zapper.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2018
Spinner, zapper, super-zapper, clear a level, avoid the spikes.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
