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Stinger   /stˈɪŋər/   Listen
Stinger

noun
1.
A cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy.
2.
A remark capable of wounding mentally.  Synonym: cut.
3.
A portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder.
4.
A sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland.
5.
A sharp stinging blow.





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"Stinger" Quotes from Famous Books



... Roman humdinger, Writer of satires and sich. He was consid'rable stinger— Rare were his sallies and rich. High his poetic position, Lofty his manner and brow; Lived in the time of Domitian;— That's all I ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... Drew believed Croxton was right. Through the dark, guns were moving up. The wasps were closing in on the disturbers of their nest, and every one of them carried a healthy stinger. He thought of what he had seen today: too many empty cartridge boxes, Enfield rifles still carried by men who would not, in spite of orders, discard them for the Yankee guns with ammunition to spare. Empty guns, worn-out men, weary horses ... and Yankee guns ...
— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton


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