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Zapper vs Napper - What's the difference?

zapper | napper |

As nouns the difference between zapper and napper

is that zapper is (colloquial) a remote control for a television while napper is a person who takes a nap.

zapper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
    • The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper .
  • A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
  • (figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
  • * 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
    • 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
  • * 2009 , Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love
    • You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper .

    napper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person who takes a nap
  • (obsolete) a sheep stealer
  • (slang) the head
  • (obsolete) a machine used to raise the nap on cloth
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