"Tazer" meaning in English

See Tazer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Blend of Toews + taser. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|Toews|taser}} Blend of Toews + taser Head templates: {{head|en|proper noun}} Tazer
  1. (ice hockey) Nickname for people with the surname Toews.
    Sense id: en-Tazer-en-name-bQxQTdSn Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Ice hockey, Nicknames for individuals Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports
     
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      "Toews",
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    ],
    [
      "taser",
      "taser#English"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Toews",
        "3": "taser"
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      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of Toews + taser.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proper noun"
      },
      "expansion": "Tazer",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ice hockey",
          "orig": "en:Ice hockey",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nicknames for individuals",
          "orig": "en:Nicknames for individuals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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              0,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 January 3, Sean McKenna, “Toews a key cog in Avalanche recent stellar run”, in Mile High Sticking, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025:",
          "text": "Tazer’s plus-154 rating since wearing an Avs jersey is good for tops in the entire NHL during that span. Sure, he plays with future all-time great defensemen^([sic]) Cale Makar, but Toews doesn’t just ride his coattails.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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              1,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 October 9, “NHL On Tap: Schaefer set for NHL debut with Islanders at Penguins”, in NHL.com, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025:",
          "text": "'Tazer's' town\nJonathan Toews is set to make his NHL return in his hometown.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Nickname for people with the surname Toews."
      ],
      "id": "en-Tazer-en-name-bQxQTdSn",
      "links": [
        [
          "ice hockey",
          "ice hockey"
        ],
        [
          "Toews",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ice hockey) Nickname for people with the surname Toews."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "ice-hockey",
        "lifestyle",
        "skating",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tazer"
}

{
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    [
      "Toews",
      "Toews#English"
    ],
    [
      "taser",
      "taser#English"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of Toews + taser.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proper noun"
      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Ice hockey",
        "en:Nicknames for individuals"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              0,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 January 3, Sean McKenna, “Toews a key cog in Avalanche recent stellar run”, in Mile High Sticking, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025:",
          "text": "Tazer’s plus-154 rating since wearing an Avs jersey is good for tops in the entire NHL during that span. Sure, he plays with future all-time great defensemen^([sic]) Cale Makar, but Toews doesn’t just ride his coattails.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              1,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 October 9, “NHL On Tap: Schaefer set for NHL debut with Islanders at Penguins”, in NHL.com, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025:",
          "text": "'Tazer's' town\nJonathan Toews is set to make his NHL return in his hometown.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nickname for people with the surname Toews."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ice hockey",
          "ice hockey"
        ],
        [
          "Toews",
          "Toews#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ice hockey) Nickname for people with the surname Toews."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "ice-hockey",
        "lifestyle",
        "skating",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tazer"
}

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{
  "called_from": "query_wikidata",
  "msg": "WIKIDATA QUERY failed",
  "path": [
    "Tazer",
    "Template:nickname",
    "#invoke",
    "#invoke",
    "Lua:Module:nickname:For()"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "Tazer",
  "trace": "query='\\n        SELECT ?itemLabel ?itemDescription WHERE {\\n          VALUES ?item { wd:people with the surname <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">[[:Toews#English|Toews]]</i> }.\\n          SERVICE wikibase:label {\\n            bd:serviceParam\\n            wikibase:language \"en,[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en\".\\n          }\\n        }\\n        ' r.text='SPARQL-QUERY: queryStr=\\n        SELECT ?itemLabel ?itemDescription WHERE {\\n          VALUES ?item { wd:people with the surname <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">[[:Toews#English|Toews]]</i> }.\\n          SERVICE wikibase:label {\\n            bd:serviceParam\\n            wikibase:language \"en,[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en\".\\n          }\\n        }\\n        \\njava.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.openrdf.query.MalformedQueryException: Encountered \" \"with\" \"with \"\" at line 3, column 36.\\nWas expecting one of:\\n    \"}\" ...\\n    \"true\" ...\\n    \"false\" ...\\n    \"UNDEF\" ...\\n    <Q_IRI_REF> ...\\n    <PNAME_NS> ...\\n    <PNAME_LN> ...\\n    <INTEGER> ...\\n    <INTEGER_POSITIVE> ...\\n    <INTEGER_NEGATIVE> ...\\n    <DECIMAL> ...\\n    <DECIMAL_POSITIVE> ...\\n    <DECIMAL_NEGATIVE> ...\\n    <DOUBLE> ...\\n    <DOUBLE_POSITIVE> ...\\n    <DOUBLE_NEGATIVE> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL1> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL2> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL_LONG1> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL_LONG2> ...\\n    \\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:206)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.BigdataServlet.submitApiTask(BigdataServlet.java:292)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet.doSparqlQuery(QueryServlet.java:678)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet.doGet(QueryServlet.java:290)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.RESTServlet.doGet(RESTServlet.java:240)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.MultiTenancyServlet.doGet(MultiTenancyServlet.java:273)\\n\\tat javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:687)\\n\\tat javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:865)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1655)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.throttling.ThrottlingFilter.doFilter(ThrottlingFilter.java:339)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.throttling.SystemOverloadFilter.doFilter(SystemOverloadFilter.java:84)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat ch.qos.logback.classic.helpers.MDCInsertingServletFilter.doFilter(MDCInsertingServletFilter.java:50)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.QueryEventSenderFilter.doFilter(QueryEventSenderFilter.java:126)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.ClientIPFilter.doFilter(ClientIPFilter.java:43)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.JWTIdentityFilter.doFilter(JWTIdentityFilter.java:66)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.RealAgentFilter.doFilter(RealAgentFilter.java:33)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642)\\n\\tat org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.RequestConcurrencyFilter.doFilter(RequestConcurrencyFilter.java:50)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1634)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:533)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:146)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:257)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1595)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:255)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1340)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:203)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:473)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1564)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:201)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1242)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:144)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:220)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:126)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:503)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:364)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:260)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:305)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:103)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:118)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:333)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:310)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:168)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:126)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:366)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:765)\\n\\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:683)\\n\\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)\\nCaused by: org.openrdf.query.MalformedQueryException: Encountered \" \"with\" \"with \"\" at line 3, column 36.\\nWas expecting one of:\\n    \"}\" ...\\n    \"true\" ...\\n    \"false\" ...\\n    \"UNDEF\" ...\\n    <Q_IRI_REF> ...\\n    <PNAME_NS> ...\\n    <PNAME_LN> ...\\n    <INTEGER> ...\\n    <INTEGER_POSITIVE> ...\\n    <INTEGER_NEGATIVE> ...\\n    <DECIMAL> ...\\n    <DECIMAL_POSITIVE> ...\\n    <DECIMAL_NEGATIVE> ...\\n    <DOUBLE> ...\\n    <DOUBLE_POSITIVE> ...\\n    <DOUBLE_NEGATIVE> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL1> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL2> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL_LONG1> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL_LONG2> ...\\n    \\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.parseQuery2(Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.java:400)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet$SparqlQueryTask.call(QueryServlet.java:741)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet$SparqlQueryTask.call(QueryServlet.java:695)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.task.ApiTaskForIndexManager.call(ApiTaskForIndexManager.java:68)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)\\n\\t... 1 more\\nCaused by: com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.ParseException: Encountered \" \"with\" \"with \"\" at line 3, column 36.\\nWas expecting one of:\\n    \"}\" ...\\n    \"true\" ...\\n    \"false\" ...\\n    \"UNDEF\" ...\\n    <Q_IRI_REF> ...\\n    <PNAME_NS> ...\\n    <PNAME_LN> ...\\n    <INTEGER> ...\\n    <INTEGER_POSITIVE> ...\\n    <INTEGER_NEGATIVE> ...\\n    <DECIMAL> ...\\n    <DECIMAL_POSITIVE> ...\\n    <DECIMAL_NEGATIVE> ...\\n    <DOUBLE> ...\\n    <DOUBLE_POSITIVE> ...\\n    <DOUBLE_NEGATIVE> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL1> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL2> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL_LONG1> ...\\n    <STRING_LITERAL_LONG2> ...\\n    \\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.generateParseException(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:9722)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.jj_consume_token(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:9589)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.InlineDataOneVar(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1182)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.DataBlock(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1136)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.InlineData(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1110)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPatternNotTriples(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2373)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2047)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1969)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.WhereClause(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1013)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.SelectQuery(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:377)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.Query(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:328)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.QueryContainer(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:216)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.parseQuery(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:32)\\n\\tat com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.parseQuery2(Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.java:336)\\n\\t... 7 more\\n'"
}

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