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zapper (s) (noun), zappers (pl)
1. An electronic device which attracts and kills bugs: Lou used an insect zapper to kill the hundreds of pests flying around the porch light.
2. Anything that is considered to be capable of exterminating or destroying something: Some films show wars going on with zappers shooting each other down.
3. In computer programming, a reference to a command in some database programs which erases all the data in a file or a spreadsheet all at one time: When Adam bought a new computer, all of the data in the old machine was changed over to the new machine and then a zapper program cleaned out his old computer.
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