teaser

plural teasers

1. One who teases or pokes fun.

   Synonyms: tease

2. businessA person or thing that teases.
3. businessA preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
4. videobroadcastingA brief portion of a television episode or video that is shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
5. UKdialectalA kind of gull, the jaeger
6. businessA shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
7. The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
8. entertainmentA short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
9. UKAn assistant who accompanies the 'Obby 'Oss in the May Day festivities of Padstow, Cornwall.
10. One who excites a person or an animal (see gomer) sexually without fulfilment.

    A whore keeps her promises. A teaser only promises.

    1966, Theodor Reik, The Many Faces of Sex, page 149

11. fishingA lure, especially one without a hook, used to attract fish to another lure or lures.
12. fishingA lure used in addition to a bucktail used for fluke fishing.