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Stinger

noun

A cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy.

A remark capable of wounding mentally. Synonym: cut.

A portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder.

A sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland.

A sharp stinging blow.

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Etymology of 'Stinger'

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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 ...

— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... With her nostrils close to the opening In the shutters, she inhaled the heated air of the yard of drying grass. On the white window-sill just outside, a bronze wasp was whirling excitedly, that cautious stinger which never arrives until summer is sure. The oleanders in the big green tubs looked wilted though abundantly ...

— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen

Words linked to "Stinger" : brandy, contumely, surface-to-air missile, organ, insult, creme de menthe, revilement, aculeus, vilification, cocktail, SAM, heat-seeking missile, sting, blow, abuse