[ˈteɪstə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person employed to test food or drink for quality by tasting it
(e.g: a tea taster)

- a small quantity or brief experience of something, intended as a sample
(e.g: the song is a taster for the band's new LP)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: in early use from Anglo-Norman French tastour, from Old French taster ‘to taste’; later from taste + -er