stingers

Noun

stinger (plural stingers)

1. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.

   Synonyms:

   sting

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...
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.

   Synonyms:

   spike strip

6. A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.

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