stinger Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy
  2. noun a remark capable of wounding mentally
    cut.
    • the unkindest cut of all
  3. noun a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder
  4. noun a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland
  5. noun a sharp stinging blow

WordNet

Sting"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, stings.
    Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusæ of our seas are stingers. Owen.

Webster 1913