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Stinger
Definitions
- 1 A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
- 2 The FIM-92 portable infra-red homing surface-to-air missile.
- 3 a sharp stinging blow wordnet
- 4 Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
"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."
- 5 a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland wordnet
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- 6 Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically.
- 7 a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder wordnet
- 8 A cocktail of brandy and crème de menthe.
- 9 a remark capable of wounding mentally wordnet
- 10 A portable bed of nails to puncture car tires, used by police and military forces.
- 11 a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy wordnet
- 12 A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.
- 13 A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.
- 14 A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.
- 15 A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade. slang
- 16 A short musical phrase or chord used non-diegetically to dramatic or emphatic effect.
"The most commonly used tool in the horror score kit is the “sting” — a quick and loud jolt of sound that coincides with a frightening image or the attack of a killer or creature. “Stingers are a form of music that are unique to movies,” Young adds. “There’s no other venue of musicmaking that has a window of opportunity for writing these little splats of instrumental sound that exist for the sole purpose of getting the little girls in the audience to jump out of their seats. In two or three seconds, you have to do enough so that it isn’t melodrama, that it does the job and also it’s your signature.”"
- 17 A final note played at the end of a military march. slang
- 18 An extension cord. slang
- 19 A stinging nettle. West-Country, slang
- 20 Chironex fleckeri, an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.
- 21 An improvised heating element used to boil or heat water in prison. slang
Etymology
From sting + -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.
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