Tase

//teɪz// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An electric shock administered with a taser.
Verb
  1. 1
    to operate a taser or electroshock stun gun, by using it against a subject

    "If the funding for these new tasers is approved, the entire JCPD will have to be re-trained on the tasers, but luckily they won't all have to be tased again."

Example

More examples

"If the funding for these new tasers is approved, the entire JCPD will have to be re-trained on the tasers, but luckily they won't all have to be tased again."

Etymology

Back-formation from taser, from the trademark Taser, by reinterpretation as tase + -er.

Related phrases

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.