1.
2.
[syn: stinger, cut]
3. a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder;
4. a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland;
5. a sharp stinging blow;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stinger \Sting"er\, n.
One who, or that which, stings.
[1913 Webster]
Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority
of the medusae of our seas are stingers. --Owen.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stinger
n 1: a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy
2: a remark capable of wounding mentally; "the unkindest cut of
all" [syn: stinger, cut]
3: a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using
infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder
4: a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray
or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland
5: a sharp stinging blow