lasery

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From laser +‎ -y.

Adjective[edit]

lasery (comparative more lasery, superlative most lasery)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a laser.
    • 1995 November, “Total Eclipse”, in The Official PlayStation Magazine, number 1, Bath, Avon: Future Publishing, →ISSN, page 89:
      These green lasery things speed up your ship, so – novel plot twist – you’re forced to press the ‘decelerate’ button.
    • 1996, Mike Newirth, “Give the Millionaire a Drink”, in Thomas Frank, editor, The Baffler, number 8, Chicago, Ill.: Salsedo Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 127:
      She’s on top now, the ultimate hostess, a lasery visionary of taste and purchases and decor, with magazines and recipe clubs and catalogs, a carpet-bombing of commerce spread across the hick heartland; []
    • 2000, Edward Sanders, The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg, Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, →ISBN, page 184:
      Harry could be like a lasery sandbur but had a gentle fraction inside that brought him intense friendships especially with women
    • 2001 March, “back 2 the roots”, in Amiga Active, number 18, Bournemouth: Pinprint Publishing Ltd, →ISSN, page 52:
      What’s best? Orange flamey weapons, green lasery ones, blue chevron-shaped things or red balls?
    • 2003, Daniel Coyle, Waking Samuel: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 211:
      Her eyes adjusted slowly to the light, and through the lasery gloom she saw what seemed like a thousand children hurtling like atomic particles through the semidarkness.
    • 2004 July, Ed Dawson, “Remote Strike 7.0”, in PC PowerPlay, number 101, Redfern, N.S.W.: Next Publishing Pty Ltd, →ISSN, page 107:
      The sniper rifle is nicely revamped, resembling the model used by the Rangers and Navy SEALs, which shows adjusters for range in the scope (although we think they’re mostly just cosmetic) and bathes your target in a red lasery glow, moments before you cause them to pop like a plasticine person.
    • 2008, Mister Rengerz [pseudonym], “Commotion from the Ocean”, in Ring Dragonz, Rockford, Ill.: Helm Publishing, →ISBN, page 243:
      A pair of lasery, talon-rich claws landed atop two capsized frigates to survey the damage.
    • 2008, Monica Ferrell, The Answer Is Always Yes, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 318:
      Dahlia Warner, the short girl with lasery blue eyes, stood by the bar, ranting toward David Breck’s chest—he was in a black suit with a rainbow-colored button-down, looking rather with-it, actually.
    • 2008 October, Andrew Carruthers, “Geeks and Pocket Projectors”, in HUB: The Computer Paper, volume 21, number 10, Toronto, Ont.: Piccolo Publishing Inc., →ISSN, page 36, column 2:
      Reflecting from a different part of the chip to fill in a same given pixel helps stagger the light from a laser so that it starts acting like regular light, losing that weird lasery look as the light waves are offset.
    • 2009, Arthur Phillips, The Song Is You, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 173:
      Julian attempted, “I did a shoot last year for a diamond company, a lot of lasery, intense but very well-aimed light, an intimate look, fine detail, maybe something we could apply to—”
    • 2010, Robert Brockway, “[Current Threats] New Energy”, in Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 65:
      Any number of entities expect to have working prototypes circling the Earth in the near future, firing buckets of sweet, hot, lasery goodness into the mouths of naughty, subservient little power stations all across the globe.
    • 2010 June, Keith Hennessey, “Welcome”, in Play, number 192, Bournemouth: Imagine Publishing Ltd, →ISSN, page 006:
      Of course we have plenty for the non-Force fans this month, too, with an exclusive preview of the new Lord Of The Rings title War In the North, a look at why the PS3 is leading the way when it comes to game development and more previews and reviews than you can wave a coloured, lasery stick at.
    • 2012, Cate Tiernan [pseudonym; Gabrielle Charbonnet], Eternally Yours (Immortal Beloved; 3), London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 67:
      His face was totally serious, but his eyes were…softer. Not so lasery.
    • 2012, Elana Johnson, Surrender, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 19:
      Four sets of lasery eyes moved closer. I kept my chin pressed to my chest so they couldn’t capture my face and beam it back to whoever would dispatch the Enforcement Officers.
    • 2014, Claudia Gray [pseudonym; Amy Vincent], A Thousand Pieces of You, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, →ISBN, page 35:
      Nobody wants to hear that theoretical physics has less to do with shiny lasery stuff and more to do with numbers.
    • 2014, Ron Dakron, chapter 22, in Hello Devilfish!, New York, N.Y.: Three Rooms Press, →ISBN, page 125:
      “Give him up!” she rakes lasery eyebeams over commuters till they burst into bone popcorn.
    • 2014, Mitch Benn, Terra’s World, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 12:
      But sci-fi, good old spaceshippy, lasery, robotty distant planets and/or distant future capital S capital F – nobody seemed to want that any more.
    • 2017, Eric Tipton, Susanna Rosenblum, Beautiful Criminals: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, →ISBN, page 23:
      Amanda felt like the minivan had become some Star Wars–y rocket ship with lasery tasery things darting at her from every direction.