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How to pronounce “zapper”
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Pronunciation guide for zapper
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of zapper with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Robert Fischell: TED Prize wish: Finding new cures for migraine, depression, malpractice 27 minutes
but researchers here in Ohio organizing clinical trials for this migraine zapper,
- Definition summary
- (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
Example 1 of 2
How to pronounce zapper
Robert Fischell: TED Prize wish: Finding new cures for migraine, depression, malpractice 27 minutes

but researchers here in Ohio organizing clinical trials for this migraine zapper,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “zapper”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
- (colloquial) A device that electrifies or electrocutes.
- (colloquial, figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
- (slang) A microwave oven.
- [Verb]
- to channel-hop, channel surf
- (figuratively) to dither, change one's opinion rapidly, vacillate
- to skip over
- (informal) to forget
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