zap

A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.

An electric shock.

You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.

A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.

Black AIDS activists were caught in the middle of a nearly yearlong series of zaps.

When a zap at Brooklyn's Board of Education opened no dialogue on discrimination suffered by gay teachers, GAA targeted the BOE offices on April 13.

The act of heating something in a microwave oven.

The guest immediately asked the bartender to give his drink a zap in the microwave oven behind him […]

To make a zap sound.

To use a remote control to repeatedly fast-forward or change channels on a television.

To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.

They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.

To kill; to eliminate.

Says a U. S. officer: "We zapped the enemy, now we intend to stick around. […]

To do away with something.

Representing the sound or action of a zap.

Then the computer went zap and I lost all my work.

Zap is a comic-book hero - Zap! Powie! Kazoom!; why have you retired, Zap, when we need you so much?