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n. - Someone who teases someone else with a desirable object.

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  • The top tantaliser ahead of the home fixture with Manchester City tomorrow night, which he accepted could define his club's Premier League title challenge, concerned...
  • Take immortality, the arch-tantaliser with the greatest price - for gods and madmen, only.
  • And 'ere's the spirits in the tantaliser' tisn't ever kept locked, in case Master Johnny should bring a friend in.
  • In the game this is merely a tantaliser.
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