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stinger
[ sting-er ]
noun
- a person or thing that stings.
- an animal or plant having a stinging organ.
- Informal. a stinging blow, remark, or the like.
- a cocktail made of brandy and crème de menthe.
- Stinger, Military. a U.S. Army shoulder-launched, heat-seeking antiaircraft missile with a range of 3 miles (5 kilometers).
- British Informal. a highball of whiskey and soda.
- Television.
- a clip appearing during or after the closing credits of a show or movie:
The next season’s new cast member appears briefly in the stinger.
Stinger
1/ ˈɪŋə /
noun
- a device, consisting of a long track of raised spikes, laid across a road by police to puncture the tyres of escaping vehicles
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2/ ˈɪŋə /
noun
- a person, plant, animal, etc, that stings or hurts
- any marine creature that stings its victims, esp the box jellyfish
- Alsostengah a whisky and soda with crushed ice
stinger
/ ĭԲ′ə /
- A sharp stinging organ, such as that of a bee, scorpion, or stingray. Stingers usually inject venom.
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Kinchens said he suffered a mild stinger Saturday but felt fine.
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“Initially I thought it was someone’s knee hitting mine – it felt like a big stinger,” he tells BBC Sport.
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They followed him for a further six miles until other officers used the stinger to slow him down.
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Moreno said at least 200 stingers were removed from his neck and arms.
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Smaller than scorpions and lacking a stinger and tail, pseudoscorpions live in a range of habitats globally and are associated with a wide variety of parasitic organisms including nematodes.
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