zapper

Noun

zapper (plural zappers)

1. (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
   • The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
2. (colloquial) A device that electrifies or electrocutes.
   • Miranda is not the sort of person to carry a zapper but she has an oar that would cause a dog a lot more grief if it caught it full on.2005, Robert Wood, Pushing Envelopes, page 51
3. (broadly, colloquial, figuratively) Anything that exterminates.
   • If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick […]1989, Microtimes, volume 6, page 140
   • You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper.2009, Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love
4. (slang) A microwave oven.
   • I hate to spoil your microwave testimonial, but they were actually cooked in the regular oven this morning and just re-heated in the zapper.2011, Bob Cohn, To Catch a Catch, page 49