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Zapper vs Sapper - What's the difference?

zapper | sapper |

As nouns the difference between zapper and sapper

is that zapper is (colloquial) a remote control for a television while sapper is one who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like often known as a combat engineer'' or ''military engineer .

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 .

    sapper

    English

    (wikipedia sapper)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Often known as a combat engineer'' or ''military engineer .
  • (British, colloquial) an officer or private of the Royal Engineers.

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