An electro-jabber functioned as a portable shocking instrument. It shared similarities with a stun baton, but was a more primitive and earlier design. Those subjected to it experienced an intense and highly agonizing electrical jolt.
In the course of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi's assignment on Romin, the planet's ruling dictator, while at a social gathering, employed an electro-jabber against a waiter because the server presented a dish at an inappropriate moment.