teaser

Noun

• a device for teasing wool
  • a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers
    

• a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

• an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show

• a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
  • he loved to solve chessmate puzzles
    
  • that's a real puzzler
    

• an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest

• someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

• a worker who teases wool

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  tormenter , tormentor , puzzle , puzzler , mystifier , tease , annoyer , vexer