(~s, teasing, ~d)
1.
To ~ someone means to laugh at them or make jokes about them in order to embarrass, annoy, or upset them.
He told her how the boys in East Poldown had set on him, teasing him...
He ~d me mercilessly about going Hollywood...
‘You must be expecting a young man,’ she ~d.
VERB: V n, V n about n/-ing, V with quote
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Tease is also a noun.
Calling her by her real name had always been one of his ~s.
N-COUNT
teasing
She tolerated the teasing, until the fourth grade.
N-UNCOUNT: also the N
2.
If you refer to someone as a ~, you mean that they like laughing at people or making jokes about them.
My brother’s such a ~...
N-COUNT: usu sing
3.
If you say that someone is teasing, you mean that they are pretending to offer you something that you want, especially sex, but then not giving it to you.
I thought she was teasing, playing the innocent, but looking back, I’m not so sure...
When did you last flirt with him or ~ him?
VERB: V, V n
4.
If you refer to someone as a ~, you mean that they pretend to offer someone what they want, especially sex, but then do not give it to them.
Later she heard he had told one of her friends she was a ~.
N-COUNT: usu sing disapproval
5.
see also teasing , strip~