vibrator

plural vibrators

1. A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
   1. A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.

      They recommend a vibrator because it's a safe alternative to sex.

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      Mmm. I'm sick of my ‘Mighty Intruder’ vibrator with the flexible shaft and the textured head.

      1988, Wendy Goldman, Judy Toll, Casual Sex?, spoken by Stacy (Lea Thompson)

      A vibrator does not call you on your birthday. A vibrator doesn't send you flowers the next day. You cannot take a vibrator home to meet your mother.

      1998 August 2, Nicole Avril, Susan Kolinsky, “The Turtle and the Hare”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Charlotte

      Evie’s website is a peek inside an idealized wife’s sex life, serving up “The Wife’s Guide to a Morning Quickie He’ll Think About All Day” (husbands, good) and “My Vibrator Almost Destroyed My Marriage” (solo sex, bad).

      2026 April 28, Alaina Demopoulos, “‘A husband expects a yes’: how wife schools are shaping submissive Christian women”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   2. historicalA device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
   3. A trembler, as of an electric bell.
   4. A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
   5. A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
   6. An oscillator.
   7. An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
   8. A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
   9. businessAny of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
   10. An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.