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zap out
Idioms and Phrases
Interrupt or delete unwanted parts of a television program or video, as in We've taped the show and now we can zap out all the commercials . [c. 1980]Example Sentences
It’s obviously more convenient to have one pair of headphones that can use ANC to zap out noise on flights, make hands-free calls, use voice assistants, and also be good to use to DJ.
Their sound quality, comfort, and ability to completely zap out ambient sound with noise cancellation aren’t up for debate.
The Taylor Method's to zap out a duct through my shelter and kill the aliens from safety.
To take the zap out of a school of electric eels, fishermen in 17th century South America sent teams of horses into the water as bait, scooping up the eels after they had exhausted themselves in the attack.
Slide, for example, allows you to send free virtual sucker punches to friends on Facebook, but if you pay $4.99 a month for unlimited use you can zap out presumably better messages about things such as zombification.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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