noun A device that vibrates, especially one used for massage or sexual stimulation.
- A vibrator does not call you on your birthday. A vibrator doesn't send you flowers the next day. You cannot take a vibrator home to meet your mother.
— Nicole Avril, The Turtle and the Hare (1998)
- Evie’s website is a peek inside an idealized wife’s sex life, serving up “The Wife’s Guide to a Morning Quickie He’ll Think About All Day” (husbands, good) and “My Vibrator Almost Destroyed My Marriage” (solo sex, bad).
— Alaina Demopoulos, ‘A husband expects a yes’: how wife schools are shaping submissive Christian women (2026)
- They recommend a vibrator because it's a safe alternative to sex.
- She bought a new vibrator online.
noun (dated, mechanical) Any device that produces a rapid trembling motion, such as a component in old electrical or industrial equipment.
- The old radio used a mechanical vibrator to step up the voltage.
