Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A handheld device made by Taser International intended to immobilize another by delivering an electric shock; a stun gun.
- v. To shock an individual or animal with a handheld device with the electric shock that it delivers; to stun with a stun gun
- v. figuratively To strike verbally or gesturally with ill intents.
Examples
“Coming back at them with “A taser is too murder!” is going to make you lose the case.”
“Does this mean that a muscle-incapacitating taser is morally allowed to be more painful than a pain gun?”
“Charge Mounties in taser case, Polish watchdog says”
“Whilst the XREP looks really spiffy, it has a range which, whilst twice that of a current taser, is still only about 20m (IIRC).”
“A normal CS spray or taser is out of the question because they need a close deployment A CS grenade could be deployed from a distance, but the gunman could simply go into another room to avoid the ‘gas’.”
“The taser is not a cure-all, nor is it to something to be feared.”
“I believe we all need better protection and in my force taser is being rolled out to no armed officers which i see as a positive step.”
“Optimal target range for the taser is 7-10 feet with a maximum of 14 feet.”
“The rationale for using the taser is that it protects the cops and that it was her fault because she didn't sign the traffic ticket ... or exit the vehicle when "requested".”
“The taser is a case in point, it has gone for a substitution for lethal force to a method of immediate compliance.”
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for taser.
bilby I was in LA this year for a week, my first visit for a while. I really had no say in it and, despite my misgivings, it was quite enjoyable. LA is such a caricature that it's funny. I could walk down the street - funny in itself: people were staring at me from their carnivorous SUV's - chuckling to myself. So, jolly Antipodean meets Mexican immigrant selling the Buzz Lightyear alarm clock you have to have, etc.
The thought of actually living in the USA for a few years is beginning, mysteriously, to appeal to me. Help.
Dec 4, 2007
uselessness So, bilby... you live really far away, don't you? ;-) Dec 4, 2007
bilby Some background there helps, first I've heard of it. The point though appears to be the attitude of Don Imus. Nappy is just caught in the crossfire. Like u said, you might put nappy up for Newsworthy. Dec 2, 2007
lampbane Wikipedia to the rescue! Dec 2, 2007
bilby Imus? Rutgers? Wheels spinning in the mud here. I could paste the results of my search on nappy but roughly speaking it has a lot to do with baby bottoms and trying to be eco-friendly. Dec 2, 2007
lampbane I have no idea if you're being sarcastic or not. I was referring to the Imus/Rutgers incident. Dec 2, 2007
bilby Nappy? Is there a baby boom on?
I can't do much about taser. You probably need better news :-7 Dec 2, 2007
lampbane I never got the impression that WOTY always had to be new, just important. And I think taser was important this year, as was nappy. Dec 2, 2007
bilby taser as such is not a new word though its use as a verb is recent. Ugly though. I'd probably die of the verbing if someone tased me.
Would be nice to include older words as there are some wonderful rediscoveries on Wordie that are very worthwhile. Dec 2, 2007
seanahan I think my main idea of WOTY was for it to be a new word, because otherwise we are choosing from a much larger pool of words. Most such lists award a neologism from that year or a word which no one had heard before that year. For example, truthiness existed, but in a different sense, and nobody had heard it. We could split into different types of word of the year if that's what people want. Dec 2, 2007
uselessness Is one of the requirements of WOTY that a word must be new this year? I think we might be able to have a little more flexibility there... Dec 1, 2007
seanahan Especially since this is an old word. If someone else wants to run the WOTY categories (Uselessness, were you volunteering?), this would go under "Finally caught on" or something along those lines. Dec 1, 2007
uselessness Agreed. I think we should have WOTY categories, because there are plenty of more "fun" words, but this is best described as newsworthy or tragedy or something. Nov 30, 2007
lampbane I've decided to nominate this for WOTY '07 not just because of "don't 'tase me bro" but because every time I watch the news, there always seems to be a new report on someone getting tased by the authorities.
They're still looking into the Polish man who died at the Vancouver airport, and apparently a pregnant woman was tased recently. Nov 29, 2007