Crossword clues for taser
taser
- Battery-operated weapon
- Zapping gun
- Zapping device
- Weapon with dartlike electrodes
- Weapon used to deliver a temporarily paralysing electric shock
- Weapon that immobilizes
- Weapon often seen on "24"
- Weapon in a holster
- Usually non-lethal weapon
- Trademarked weapon
- Trademarked stunner
- Trademarked dart gun
- Trademark derived from a Tom Swift book
- Tom Swift's Electric Rifle, commonly
- Stunning thing
- Stunning shooter
- Stunning handful?
- Stunning brand name?
- Stun gun used by police
- Stun gun kin
- Source of criminal charges?
- Shocking subduer
- Shocking shooter
- Shocking device used by the police?
- Shocking device
- Shocking development of the 1970s
- Shocker on the street
- Shocker on a cop's belt
- Shock-delivering weapon
- Shock dispenser
- Riot squad gadget
- Riot cop's weapon
- Pulsing pronged peacekeeper
- Police zapper
- Police shocker
- Police officer's zapper
- Police officer's stun gun
- Police device
- Perp stunner
- Perp stopper
- Nonlethal weapon, usually
- Non-lethal weapon
- Modern weapon
- Modern police weapon
- Law enforcement device
- Juice dispenser?
- It's purpose is stunning
- It'll give you a shock
- It provides a shock to the system
- It may shock you
- It may keep a man down
- It fires electrodes
- It delivers a shock
- Immobilizing stunner
- Immobilizing shooter
- Gun to stun
- Gun that fires electric darts
- Electroshock gun
- Electric dart gun
- Device using electrified darts to stun
- Device used to stun someone temporarily
- Dart-firing weapon
- Dart gun
- Current delivery method?
- Criminal zapper
- Cop's zapper
- Cop's nonlethal weapon
- Cop's enforcer
- Cop's device
- Cop show shocker
- Cop prop
- Controversial riot squad tool
- Controversial law enforcement tool
- Certain nonlethal weapon
- Alternative to a truncheon
- Alternative to a gun
- Acronymic stunner
- Acronym for a modern police weapon
- 50,000 volt weapon
- "Electric rifle"
- Stun gun cousin
- Shocker stick?
- It may be stunning
- Electric dart shooter
- Criminal subduer
- Jolt deliverer
- Police weapon
- Stunner of a weapon?
- Real shocker
- Electric dart firer
- Police stunner
- Current device for a cop?
- Real stunner
- Police stun gun
- Acronymic weapon
- It's stunning!
- Stinger
- Big stinger
- You may be shocked by it
- Dart gun of a sort
- Stun with a gun
- Gun that delivers a jolt
- Mall cop weapon
- Subduer, of a sort
- Cop's stunner
- Gunlike device
- Means to give crook a shocking experience?
- Exchange rates that can be shocking
- One's pulled out when arrest gets tricky?
- Weapon was re-examined having backfired
- Weapon bringing shock and awful tears
- Support retreating holding a weapon
- Stunning weapon
- Stunner modelled again, maybe, on return
- Stare goofily, seeing stunner
- Shocking weapon?
- Shocker! Had another go at paper when upset
- Shock result as error uncovered
- Regret a serviceman carries shocking weaponry
- Boomerang was retested as weapon
- It might shock you, but a sermon entertains
- Had another chance to pass over arm
- A stunner — stare wildly
- Turned up remains containing a shocking weapon
- Took paper again, turning over to reveal a shocker
- Tears flowing: that's shocking
- It's a stunner
- Riot control weapon
- Riot squad weapon
- Nonlethal weapon brand
- Shock source
- Perp zapper
- Perp subduer
- Stun gun brand
- Immobilizing weapon
- High-voltage weapon
- Electroshock weapon used by the police
- Weapon with electrodes
- Shooter of electric darts
- It's shocking
- It fires electric darts
- Electrical weapon
- Electric-dart firer
- Stunning gun
- Stunning device
- Stun gun relative
- Shocking handful
- Policeman's immobilizer
- Mall cop's weapon
- Law enforcement tool
- Law enforcement shocker
- Item on a cop's belt
- It'll shock you
- It will shock you
- Firer of electric darts
- Felon feller
- Electrified weapon
- Electric stun gun
- Confrontation-ending device
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1972, formed (probably on model of laser, etc.) from the initials of Tom Swift's electric rifle, a fictitious weapon. A word that threatens to escape the cage of its copyright, despite the strenuous efforts of the owners, who are within their rights to fight to hold it. They also insist, via their attorneys, that it be written all in capitals. Tom Swift was the hero of a series of early 20c. American sci-fi/adventure novels, one of which was titled "Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle." It seems to have spawned a verb, taze or tase. Related: Tased; tasing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A Taser, a handheld device made by (w: Taser International) intended to immobilize another by delivering an electric shock; a stun gun. 2 by generalization, any eletroshock stun gun vb. 1 To shock an individual or animal with a handheld device with the electric shock that it delivers; to stun with a stun gun 2 (context figuratively English) To strike verbally or gesturally with ill intents.
Wikipedia
A Taser or conducted electrical weapon (CEW) is an electroshock weapon sold by Taser International. It fires two small dart-like electrodes, which stay connected to the main unit by conductors, to deliver electric current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles causing " neuromuscular incapacitation". Someone struck by a Taser experiences over-stimulation of sensory nerves and motor nerves, resulting in strong involuntary muscle contractions. Tasers do not rely on pain compliance, except when used in "Drive Stun" mode, and are thus preferred by some law enforcement over non-Taser stun guns and other electronic control weapons.
Tasers were introduced as non-lethal weapons for police to use to subdue fleeing, belligerent, or potentially dangerous people, who would have otherwise been subjected to more lethal weapons such as firearms. A 2009 Police Executive Research Forum study said that officer injuries drop by 76% when a Taser is used. However, while Taser CEO Rick Smith has stated that police surveys show that the device has saved 75,000 lives, there have been some instances where Tasers have resulted in serious injury or death. Although some other companies have produced similar devices (e.g., Raysun X1), their significance as of 2014 is still marginal.
Taser or similar can mean:
- Taser, an electric-shock weapon
- Taser International, a firm which makes tasers and other items
- Tasar, a type of sailboat
- Tazer (musician), a British musician
- TASer, internet slang for someone who creates tool-assisted speedruns
Usage examples of "taser".
It was more likely that Patroclus would find and kill poor Nightenhelser, although the Greek was naked and unarmed and Keith was still decked out in impact armor, taser baton, and prop sword.
Laodice aims the taser at my chest and taps the shaft of the wand again.
My chest still hurts and my muscles ache from the spasms the taser caused.
The women slide to me the Hades Helmet, the taser baton, the morphing bracelet, and the QT medallion.
Whatever the final reason, I aim my baton and taser the arrogant bitch.
QT medallion and shotgun mike and zoom lenses and taser baton and Hades Helmet.
I was strictly forbidden the use of deadly force, and usually carried only a Taser, a stun gun that could drop a two-hundred pound man at ten feet.
He sighed at the mess Noon had made of his ingeniously concealed taser weapon.
Smit pursued the stun gun possibility and narrowed down the type of weapon that could have produced the telltale marks to an Air Taser brand.
Thin powerful limbs jutted from its silver-seamed black-plastic torso, and its swollen head bristled with spring-loaded taser darts and the blunt nozzles of restraint webs.
The twin darts shot out from the taser gun and hit Romanello dead center in the chest.
He felt weak and mushy inside, his limbs trembled with the neurological aftereffects of the taser jolt, his mouth tasted of blood, and his nose throbbed from taking the full force of his headfirst dive into the floorplates when the dart hit him.
I awaken at the Scholia barracks, that place of red sand and blue sky and great stone faces, am summoned by the Muse, get sniffed and passed by the murderous cerberids, am duly carried the seventeen vertical miles to the grassy summits of Olympos via the high-speed east-slope crystal escalator and—once reported in at the Muse’s empty villa—receive my briefing from the scholic going off-shift, don my morphing gear and impact armor, slide the taser baton into my belt, and then QT to the evening plains of Ilium.
If they had wanted to kill me, I would not have been Tasered at the Jessup house.
Achilles is on me so fast, throwing me to the sand and drawing his knife so quickly, that I couldn’t have tasered him if my life depended on it.