teasing

4 definitions • 4 examples

present participle of

to laugh at someone or say unkind things about them, either because you are joking or because you want to upset that person:

be teased about I used to hate being teased about my red hair when I was at school.

I was just teasing - I didn't mean to upset you.

to give a small amount of information about a subject, product, etc. in order to make people interested in seeing or hearing more about it later:

The announcement teased a possible European tour the following year.

He refused to give specifics but teased that "people are going to love it."

to hold your hair away from your head and brush it towards your head with a comb, in order to make it look thicker