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stinger en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈstɪŋ.ɚ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈstɪŋ.ə(ɹ)/ (UK)

Etymology

From sting + -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.

Meanings

  1. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
  2. 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. 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
  3. Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically.
  4. A cocktail of brandy and crème de menthe.
  5. A portable bed of nails to puncture car tires, used by police and military forces.
  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. 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.” 2007 November 15, Jeff Bond, “Composing scary sounds not for the faint of heart”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
  11. (slang) A final note played at the end of a military march.
  12. (slang) An extension cord.
  13. (West-Country, qualifier:Bristol, slang) A stinging nettle.
  14. Chironex fleckeri, an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.
  15. (slang) An improvised heating element used to boil or heat water in prison.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stingers Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

mauve stinger · stingerless · mesquite stinger moth · horse-stinger · marine stinger

Synonyms

sting · spike strip

Translations (88)

it aculeo (pointed portion of an insect) · vi ngòi (pointed portion of an insect) · sk žihadlo (pointed portion of an insect) · cmn 毒刺 (pointed portion of an insect) · tl asir (pointed portion of an insect) · cmn 刺 (pointed portion of an insect) · bg жи́ло (pointed portion of an insect) · la aculeus (pointed portion of an insect) · ca agulló (pointed portion of an insect) · pl żądło (pointed portion of an insect) · it stoccata (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · ja 毒針 (pointed portion of an insect) · es aguijón (pointed portion of an insect) · yi שטאָך (pointed portion of an insect) · el κεντρί (pointed portion of an insect) · it pungiglione (pointed portion of an insect) · ba ҡаяу (pointed portion of an insect) · grc κέντρον (pointed portion of an insect) · ja いやみ (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · sh бодљика (pointed portion of an insect) · ota ابره (pointed portion of an insect) · gl aguillón (pointed portion of an insect) · pt aguilhão (pointed portion of an insect) · sh bodlja (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · sh griža (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · sq thumb (pointed portion of an insect) · fr dard (pointed portion of an insect) · lt geluonis (pointed portion of an insect) · kk шаншар (pointed portion of an insect) · he עוקץ (pointed portion of an insect) · ru жа́ло (pointed portion of an insect) · izh neegla (pointed portion of an insect) · sh жалац (pointed portion of an insect) · fr aiguillon (pointed portion of an insect) · no brodd (pointed portion of an insect) · sh бодља (pointed portion of an insect) · de Stachel (pointed portion of an insect) · ota آری دیكنی (pointed portion of an insect) · hu fullánk (pointed portion of an insect) · hy խայթոց (pointed portion of an insect) · ro ac (pointed portion of an insect) · nl angel (pointed portion of an insect) · sh боцка (pointed portion of an insect) · sh жаока (pointed portion of an insect) · tr iğne (pointed portion of an insect) · sh bodljika (pointed portion of an insect) · nv azǫ́ǫ́z (pointed portion of an insect) · sh drača (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · ka ნესტარი (pointed portion of an insect) · hy խայթ (pointed portion of an insect) · pt ferrão (pointed portion of an insect) · sv gadd (pointed portion of an insect) · cy colyn (pointed portion of an insect) · ja 針 (pointed portion of an insect) · alt чагак (pointed portion of an insect) · uk жа́ло (pointed portion of an insect) · pt insulto (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · ca fibló (pointed portion of an insect) · fi pistin (pointed portion of an insect) · mk жило (pointed portion of an insect) · sh bodljika (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · es lanceta (pointed portion of an insect) · cy atgno (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · pt provocação (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · it frecciata (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · eo pikilo (pointed portion of an insect) · it provocazione (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · az neştər (pointed portion of an insect) · xal хатхур (pointed portion of an insect) · kl iguut (pointed portion of an insect) · sh bodlja (pointed portion of an insect) · cs žihadlo (pointed portion of an insect) · th เหล็กใน (pointed portion of an insect) · ota ایكنه (pointed portion of an insect) · sh žalac (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · gl ferrón (pointed portion of an insect) · mi hoto (anything that stings mentally or psychologically) · sh bocka (pointed portion of an insect) · sh žalac (pointed portion of an insect) · sl želo (pointed portion of an insect) · lv dzelonis (pointed portion of an insect) · fa نیش (pointed portion of an insect) · mk осило (pointed portion of an insect) · txu tey (pointed portion of an insect) · is broddur (pointed portion of an insect) · gl ferrete (pointed portion of an insect) · sh žaoka (pointed portion of an insect) · be джа́ла (pointed portion of an insect)