Definition of "tranquilliser" [tranquilliser]

• Alternative spelling of tranquilizer. (noun)

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• "A conversion and a subsequent penalty for Flood and England were 10-0 up, having applied the ideal tranquilliser dart in terms of quelling the home crowd."
• "The other leaps at the guard and before it can reach for its tranquilliser gun it is knocked to the floor."
• "In 2008 he accepted a tiger cub as a birthday present (the donor was never disclosed) and in the same year was at the centre of an extraordinary drama when it was claimed that he shot an Amur tiger with a tranquilliser dart to save the lives of a television crew."