stinger
IPA: stˈɪŋɝ
Root Word: Stinger
noun
- (military) The FIM-92 portable infra-red homing surface-to-air missile.
- A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
- Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
- 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.
- 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.
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Examples of "stinger" in Sentences
- Stinger debuted years before as well.
- There is also a stinger net at the beach.
- Many are brown with yellow legs and stinger.
- The ovipositor is often modified into a stinger.
- They paralyze the spider with a venomous stinger.
- The Starstreak HMV is streets ahead of the Stinger.
- Regarded as one of the inventors of the Stinger missile.
- The stinger formation goes into generations in alternation.
- These alleviated the Stinger threat but did not eliminate it.
- It is intended as the sighting mechanism for the Stinger missile.
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