stinger

See also Stinger

English

Wikipedia

A wasp's stinger with a drop of venom

A US Army soldier deploying a stinger at a vehicle check point in Iraq

Etymology

sting +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈstɪŋə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"stIN@(r\)/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈstɪŋɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"stIN@`/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(r)

Noun

stinger (plural stingers)

1. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
2. Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     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 device used by the British police force consisting of a portable bed of nails to puncture car tires.
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. (slang) A final note played at the end of a military march.
11. (slang, television and film) An extension cord.

Synonyms

• (device used to puncture car tyres): spike strip

Translations

pointed portion of an insect

• Armenian: խայթոց (hy) (xayt’oc’), խայթ (hy) (xayt’)
• Azeri: neştər (az)
• Belarusian: джала (be) (džála) n
• Bulgarian: жило (bg) (žílo) n
• Catalan: fibló
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺 (cmn) (cì), 毒刺 (cmn) (dúcì)

• Czech: žihadlo (cs) n
• Finnish: pistin (fi)
• French: aiguillon (fr) m, dard (fr) m
• Georgian: ნესტარი (ka) (nestari)
• German: Stachel (de) m
• Greek: κεντρί (el) (kentrí) n
• Hebrew: עוקץ (he) (‘óqetz) m
• Hungarian: fullánk (hu)
• Icelandic: broddur (is) m
• Italian: aculeo (it) m, pungiglione (it) m
• Japanese: 針 (ja) (はり, hari), 毒針 (ja) (どくばり, dokubari)
• Kazakh: шаншар (kk) (şanşar)

• Latin: aculeus (la) m
• Latvian: dzelonis (lv) m
• Macedonian: жило (mk) (žílo) n
• Navajo: azǫ́ǫ́z
• Norwegian: brodd (no) m
• Polish: żądło (pl) n
• Portuguese: ferrão (pt) m, aguilhão (pt) m
• Russian: жало (ru) (žálo) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жаока (sh) f, жалац (sh) m, бодља (sh) f, бодљика (sh) f, боцка (sh) f

  Roman: žaoka (sh) f, žalac (sh) m, bodlja (sh) f, bodljika (sh) f, bocka (sh) f

• Slovak: žihadlo (sk) n
• Slovene: želo (sl) n
• Spanish: aguijón (es) m
• Swedish: gadd (sv) c
• Ukrainian: жало (uk) (žálo) n
• Yiddish: שטאָך (yi) (shtokh) m

anything that stings mentally or psychologically

• Italian: frecciata (it) f, stoccata (it) f, provocazione (it) f
• Japanese: {いやみ (ja) (iyami)
• Portuguese: insulto (pt), provocação (pt)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: žalac m, bodlja f, bodljika f, drača f, griža f

Anagrams

• resting
• ringest

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Verb

stinger

1. present tense of stinga.