teaser

Meanings

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

Synonyms

annoyer, mystifier, puzzle, puzzler, tease, tormenter, tormentor, vexer