stun gun

English

Noun

stun gun (plural stun guns)

A weapon intended to immobilize, usually through delivery of an electric shock.
- 1946 November, Mark Champion, “Unforeseen”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 38, number 3, page 42:
  Lodner tossed the stun gun on a flange between the stills and the fluxing panels.
- 1978 January, “The Official Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook (advert)”, in Starlog‎, volume 2, number 11, page 9:
  The removable pages are organized in strict military fashion and include complete data on the Commlock, Stun Gun, Laser Cannon, Communications Post, Uniforms, and several fold-out blueprints of the various levels and areas of Moonbase Alpha.
- 2014 March 8, “Manchester police seize stun gun disguised as iPhone”, in BBC News‎:
  A stun gun disguised as a mobile phone has been seized from a 14-year-old boy in Manchester.

Coordinate terms

taser

Translations

weapon intended to immobilize

Arabic: صَاعِق m (ṣāʕiq)
Belarusian: электрашо́кер m (eljektrašókjer)
Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電擊槍／电击枪 (diànjīqiāng)
Esperanto: elektroŝoka armilo
Finnish: etälamautin (fi), tyrmäysase
French: foudroyeur (fr) m, taser (fr) m
German: Elektroschocker (de) m
Hindi: अचेत बंदूक (acet bandūk)
Hungarian: sokkoló (hu)
Icelandic: rafbyssa f
Japanese: スタンガン (sutan gan)
Korean: 전기 충격기(電氣衝擊機) (jeon'gi chunggyeokgi)
Russian: электрошо́кер (ru) m (elektrošóker), та́зер (ru) m (tázer)
Spanish: pistola paralizante f
Ukrainian: електрошо́кер m (elektrošóker)
Vietnamese: súng gây choáng

Anagrams

unstung

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