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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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"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

... cavity or orifice of some sort in the base of your tooth. It seems to give him pleasure. Filled with intense gratification by this discovery and fired moreover by the impetuous ardor of the chase, he grabs up a crochet needle with a red hot stinger on the end of it and jabs it down your tooth to a point about opposite where your suspenders ...

— Cobb's Anatomy • Irvin S. Cobb

... the same time, the wasp stood high on its legs and pulled the worm's front end from the ground, exposing the yellowed band of the underpart. The attacker's abdomen curved beneath its own body; the stinger jabbed between two segments of the prey's jointed length. Instantly, the writhing stilled. A shudder, and the caterpillar became as inert ...

— They Twinkled Like Jewels • Philip Jose Farmer

... quick, sir. My word, it was a stinger—just like as if twenty thousand wasps was at you. Eh! ...

— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn

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