stinger
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A wasp's stinger with a drop of venom 
A US Army soldier deploying a stinger at a vehicle check point in Iraq
See also: Stinger
English
Etymology
sting + -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
stinger (plural stingers)
- A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
- Synonym: sting
- Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- The thing stopped then and looked at me a moment as much as to say: "Why this thing has a stinger! I must be careful." And then it reached out its long neck and opened its mighty jaws and grabbed for me; but I wasn't there.
- Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically.
- A cocktail of brandy and crème de menthe.
- A portable bed of nails to puncture car tires, used by police and military forces.
- Synonym: spike strip
- A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.
- A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.
- A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.
- (slang) A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade.
- A short musical phrase or chord used non-diegetically to dramatic or emphatic effect.
- (slang) A final note played at the end of a military march.
- (slang, television and film) An extension cord.
- (slang, West Country, Bristol) A stinging nettle.
- Chironex fleckeri, an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.
- (prison slang) An improvised heating element used to boil or heat water in prison.
Derived terms
Translations
pointed portion of an insect
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anything that stings mentally or psychologically
Anagrams
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Verb
stinger