1. a device for teasing wool; "a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers"
2. a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
3. an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
4. a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that''s a real puzzler"
5. an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers'' interest
6. someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
7. a worker who teases wool

Similar Words: tormenter, tormentor, puzzle, puzzler, mystifier, tease, annoyer, vexer

 

Derivational Morphology: tease, tease apart, loosen, torment, torture, excruciate, rack, perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound, annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, chafe, devil, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer, razz, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride

 

Anagrams: arrest, raster, starer, stater, taster, Sartre, Teresa, easter, Easter, assert, reseat