ectoblaster

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noun

A fictional energy weapon designed to destroy or capture ghosts.

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Meanings

nounectoblaster (plural ectoblasters)

plural ectoblasters · alternative ecto-blaster

  1. fantasyA fictional energy weapon designed to destroy or capture ghosts.

    We could use Holtzmann's ecto-blaster thingies right about now.

    2017 July 11, Kevin Hearne, Besieged: Book Nine: Stories from The Iron Druid Chronicles, Del Rey, →ISBN
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    A scaly hand grabbed Gloom's ecto-blaster and pulled it from its holster. A second ugly Ghoul examined the weapon closely.

    2010, Andrew Newbound, Ghoul Strike!, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 174

    […] whether he's a prize bare-knuckle fighter who'll beat me to paste then chew off my nose, whether he's an ex-Nazi sympathiser with a secret Thule Society ectoblaster instead of a cock[…]

    2011 July 21, Simon Spurrier, Contract, Hachette UK, →ISBN

Origin

From ecto- + blaster, likely originally coined to describe the "proton packs" and "neutrona wands" in the movie Ghostbusters (1984).

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APA

ectoblaster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ectoblaster

MLA

“ectoblaster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ectoblaster. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ectoblaster,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ectoblaster.

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