zapper

English

Etymology

zap +‎ -er

Pronunciation
  • (UK) enPR: zăpʹə(r), IPA(key): /ˈzæp.ə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æpə(r)

Noun

zapper (plural zappers)

  1. (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
    The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
  2. A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
  3. (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.

Translations

French

Etymology

From English zap

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /za.pe/
  • audio(file)

Verb

zapper

  1. to channel-hop, channel surf
  2. (figuratively) to dither, change one's opinion rapidly, vacillate
  3. to skip over
  4. (familiar) to forget

Conjugation
Conjugation of zapper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle zappant
/za.pɑ̃/
past participle zappé
/za.pe/
infinitive
simple zapper
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple zappant
/za.pɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present zappe
/zap/		 zappes
/zap/		 zappe
/zap/		 zappons
/za.pɔ̃/		 zappez
/za.pe/		 zappent
/zap/
imperfect zappais
/za.pɛ/		 zappais
/za.pɛ/		 zappait
/za.pɛ/		 zappions
/za.pjɔ̃/		 zappiez
/za.pje/		 zappaient
/za.pɛ/
past historic2 zappai
/za.pe/		 zappas
/za.pa/		 zappa
/za.pa/		 zappâmes
/za.pam/		 zappâtes
/za.pat/		 zappèrent
/za.pɛʁ/
future zapperai
/za.pʁe/		 zapperas
/za.pʁa/		 zappera
/za.pʁa/		 zapperons
/za.pʁɔ̃/		 zapperez
/za.pʁe/		 zapperont
/za.pʁɔ̃/
conditional zapperais
/za.pʁɛ/		 zapperais
/za.pʁɛ/		 zapperait
/za.pʁɛ/		 zapperions
/za.pə.ʁjɔ̃/		 zapperiez
/za.pə.ʁje/		 zapperaient
/za.pʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present zappe
/zap/		 zappes
/zap/		 zappe
/zap/		 zappions
/za.pjɔ̃/		 zappiez
/za.pje/		 zappent
/zap/
imperfect2 zappasse
/za.pas/		 zappasses
/za.pas/		 zappât
/za.pa/		 zappassions
/za.pa.sjɔ̃/		 zappassiez
/za.pa.sje/		 zappassent
/za.pas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — zappe
/zap/		 — zappons
/za.pɔ̃/		 zappez
/za.pe/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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