stinger

See also: Stinger

English

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. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋ.ə(ɹ)/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋ.ɚ/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

Noun

stinger (plural stingers)

A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., OCLC 18478577; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, OCLC 988016180:
  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.
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.

Synonyms

(pointed portion of an insect or arachnid): sting
(device used to puncture car tyres): spike strip

Translations

pointed portion of an insect

Albanian: thumb (sq)
Armenian: խայթոց (hy) (xaytʿocʿ), խայթ (hy) (xaytʿ)
Azerbaijani: neştər (az)
Bashkir: ҡаяу (qayaw)
Belarusian: джа́ла n (džála)
Bulgarian: жи́ло (bg) n (žílo)
Catalan: fibló (ca) m, agulló (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 刺 (zh) (cì), 毒刺 (zh) (dúcì)
Czech: žihadlo (cs) n
Esperanto: pikilo
Finnish: pistin (fi)
French: aiguillon (fr) m, dard (fr) m
Galician: ferrete m, aguillón (gl) m, ferrón m
Georgian: ნესტარი (nesṭari)
German: Stachel (de) m
Greek: κεντρί (el) n (kentrí)
Ancient: κέντρον n (kéntron)
Greenlandic: iguut
Hebrew: עוקץ‎ (he) m (‘óqetz)
Hungarian: fullánk (hu)
Icelandic: broddur (is) m
Italian: aculeo (it) m, pungiglione (it) m
Japanese: 針 (ja) (はり, hari), 毒針 (どくばり, dokubari)
Kalmyk: хатхур (hathur)
Kayapó: tey
Kazakh: шаншар (şanşar)
Latin: aculeus m
Latvian: dzelonis (lv) m
Lithuanian: geluonis m
Macedonian: осило n (osilo), жило n (žilo)
Navajo: azǫ́ǫ́z
Norwegian: brodd m
Ottoman Turkish: آری دیكنی‎ (arı dikeni) (bee sting), ایكنه‎ (iğne), ابره‎ (ibre)
Persian: نیش‎ (fa) (niš)
Polish: żądło (pl) n
Portuguese: ferrão (pt) m, aguilhão (pt) m
Romanian: ac (ro) n
Russian: жа́ло (ru) n (žálo)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жаока f, жалац m, бодља f, бодљика f, боцка f
Roman: žaoka (sh) f, žalac (sh) m, bodlja (sh) f, bodljika (sh) f, bocka f
Slovak: žihadlo n
Slovene: želo (sl) n
Southern Altai: чагак (čagak)
Spanish: aguijón (es) m
Swedish: gadd (sv) c
Tagalog: asir
Thai: เหล็กใน (th) (lèk-nai)
Turkish: iğne (tr)
Ukrainian: жа́ло n (žálo)
Vietnamese: ngòi (vi)
Yiddish: שטאָך‎ m (shtokh)

anything that stings mentally or psychologically

Italian: frecciata (it) f, stoccata (it) f, provocazione (it) f
Japanese: いやみ (iyami)
Maori: hoto (refers to a stingray and other such types of fish.)
Portuguese: insulto (pt), provocação (pt)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: žalac (sh) m, bodlja (sh) f, bodljika (sh) f, drača (sh) f, griža (sh) f

Anagrams

Ginters, Tigners, Tsering, resting, ringest, tingers

Swedish

Verb

stinger

present tense of stinga.

Anagrams

tigerns