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a device for teasing wool; "a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers" an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers'' interest a worker who teases wool someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that''s a real puzzler" |
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