stinger

sting +‎ -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋ.ə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋ.ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

stinger (plural stingers)

1. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.

   Synonym: sting

2. 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.

3. Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically.
4. A cocktail of brandy and crème de menthe.
5. A portable bed of nails to puncture car tires, used by police and military forces.

   Synonym: spike strip

6. A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.
7. A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.
8. A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.
9. (slang) A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade.
10. A short musical phrase or chord used non-diegetically to dramatic or emphatic effect.
11. (slang) A final note played at the end of a military march.
12. (slang, television and film) An extension cord.
13. (slang, West Country, Bristol) A stinging nettle.
14. Chironex fleckeri, an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.
15. (prison slang) An improvised heating element used to boil or heat water in prison.

• Ginters, Tigners, Tsering, resting, ringest, tingers

stinger

1. present indicative of stinga

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