Clues for the word "TEASE"
We've had 220 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 951 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on March 13, 2026.
Definition of tease
- v. t. - To comb or card, as wool or flax.
- v. t. - To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
- v. t. - To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
- v. t. - To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
- n. - One who teases or plagues.
Referring Clues
- Razz
- Flirt
- Rib
- Needle
- Poke fun at
- Fluff up
- Bait, say
- Josh
- Make one's hair stand on end?
- Make fun of
- Coquette
- Hardly the prim sort
- Flirt with
- Fluff up, as hair
- Chaff
- Lolita, e.g.
- Pick on
- Ride
- Make frizzy
- Bait
- Kid
- Pull one's leg
- Fluff, in a way
- Get on
- Play with
- Twit
- Tempt
- Bedevil
- Comb the "wrong" way
- Build a beehive?
- Mock
- Be a coquette
- Badger
- Put on a hair-raising display?
- Try to rile
- Bug
- Provoke
- Promo piece
- Movie highlight
- Hairdresser's offering
- Irritate mischievously
- Vamp
- Comb backwards
- Play the coquette
- Take a playful poke at
- Do a hair-raising job?
- Make frizzy, as hair
- Do a hair-raising task?
- Rag
- Give body to, as hair
- Tantalize
- Do a bang-up job on?
- Rub it in, say
- Have fun with
- Kid around with
- Kid with
- Engage in badinage
- Rib at a roast
- Do a do
- Leave wanting more
- Rib or roast
- Annoying one
- Say "Nyah, nyah!" to
- Irritate
- Be hair-raising?
- Backcomb
- Vex
- Display poor sportsmanship
- Do hair-raising work?
- Try to get one's goat
- Poke fun at, on the playground
- Act the coquette
- Fluff, as bangs
- Add body to a do
- Display poor sportsmanship, in a way
- Fluff hair
- Kid a kid
- Sing "nyah-nyah" to
- Taunt
- Fluff bangs
- "Coming up next" commercial, e.g.
- Playful flirt
- Purposely stay just out of reach
- Playful tormentor
- Comb backward
- Show just a little bit of leg, say
- Add body to hair
- Plump a hairdo
- Lead on
- Back-comb
- Flirtatious one
- Mock in the schoolyard
- One likely to get men's attention
- Purposely keep just out of reach
- Josh with
- Jest with
- Sing "nyah-nyah" to
- Say "Nyah, nyah!" to
- Advertiser's ploy
- Torment
- Poke fun
- Harass
- Provoke jokingly
- Provoke, perhaps
- Style, as hair into a bouffant
- Partial preview, often
- Call names
- Pester
- Make sport of
- Rival of 13-Across
- Badger in jest
- Flirty one
- Joke around with
- Call playful names, say
- Mimic Mae West
- Offer with no intention of giving, say
- Play pranks
- Annoy persistently
- Dangle a carrot, say
- Kid or rib
- Work on hair, maybe
- Needle or rib
- Back-comb hair
- Say "nyah, nyah," say
- Ridicule
- Give a hard time to
- Gently mock
- Style, in a way
- Heckle
- Comb, in a way
- Bring up an embarrassing story about, say
- Comb the wrong way
- Fluff, as hair
- Mess with, as hair or siblings
- Flirty sort
- Josh or rib
- Annoy
- Mock playfully
- Pick on playfully
- Toy with
- Annoy playfully
- Give a "big hair" look to
- Bullyrag
- Say "Nyah nyah!" to
- Homophone of the puzzle's theme
- Annoy someone on purpose
- Tantalise
- Vex or annoy
- DeBarge "Stop! Don't ___ Me"
- Sean Paul "Don't ___ Me"
- Scorpions "___ Me Please Me"
- Hint of other song during jam
- Danity Kane 'Strip ___'
- L.A. Guns "Hollywood ___"
- Twit - flirt
- Finish breakfast at leisure, then lead on
- Guy drinks with earl
- Vex in quite a serious way
- Do a provocative act, as in an informal sort of shirt
- Bait for badger
- Meal with ends of spare rib
- To rib
- Flirty person
- Wind up with English meals
- Irritate playfully
- Drinks to the closure of "Spare Rib"
- Wind up with letters read aloud
- Rib, taunt
- Mock, during recess
- Playfully pester
- Bring discontent to
- Rib playfully
- Make fun of or torment
- Time to start to relax, kid
- Guy taking drug after drinks
- Make fun of a type of dance the home counties follow
- Wind up with drinks at some point
- Time to comfort kid
- Twit supports broadcast
- Time to let up being a wind-up merchant
- Guy drinks last of wine
- Poke fun at head of eating-house following meals
- Rib, thematic if left
- Flirt with, perhaps
- Playfully taunt
- See 6
- Needle verbally
- Provoke playfully
- The lassie is not even a flirt
- Ridicule and torment
- Frustratingly promise central heating with no problem
- Drinks with English guy
- Pull a pigtail, perhaps
- Tantalise with drinks at closing time
- Hector
- Ride, so to speak
- Trifle with
- Torment playfully
- Annoy affectionately
- What movie trailers do
- Act coquettish to
- Show a short trailer for
- Mock, in a way
- Needle mischievously
- Lightly roast
- Play an April Fool's joke on, say
- “Strip ___” (Carl Hiaasen novel)
- What good movie trailers do
- Make one's hair stand on end?
- Build a beehive?
- Make blush, maybe
- Comb toward the scalp
- A bit of (badger?) baiting
- Rag on
- Flirt with, say
- Be a pest, in a way
- Give hints about, but not more
- Pick on, in a way
- Make big bangs?
- Give height to, as hair
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - March 13, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 07, 2026
- Daily American - March 03, 2026
- LA Times - March 01, 2026
- LA Times - February 23, 2026
- Daily Quick - February 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 12, 2026
- New York Times - January 15, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 11, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 31, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 02, 2025
- LA Times - November 27, 2025
- LA Times - November 24, 2025
- LA Times - October 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 21, 2025
- Daily American - September 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 30, 2025
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