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.
- The other thing was what I called the stinger bucket.
- 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.
- A Bee's stinger is less than 1/16th of an inch in length .... the other 2 feet is imagination!
- Cornell Driessen, the trainer who helped revive him for his second round, said: "That's what they call a stinger."
- If the stinger is present, remove it by gently scraping over the area with a straight-edged object, i.e., a credit card, butter knife, etc.
- Texas tailback Cedric Benson, who set a school freshman record with 1,053 yards, didn't play because of a stinger from the loss to Colorado.
- Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back.
- The Jets dodged another serious injury when Nick Mangold, the All-Pro center who sustained what the team called a stinger in a collision during a goal-line scrimmage Thursday, was cleared Friday to resume individual drills.
- He chose the foremost of the three, and found it quite as ill-tasting as the other had been; but this time he didn't spit it out, for the stinger was a little too quick for him, and before he could let go it was fast in his lip.
- Samuels left Washington's Week 5 loss at Carolina after hurting his neck, an injury that was initially called a "stinger" -- it was later revealed, though, that Samuels suffers from stenosis, which is a condition that causes narrowing of the spine.