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stinger

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A stinger is a duo cocktail made by adding crème de menthe to a spirit . The classic recipe is based on brandy and white crème de menthe, shaken and served in a cocktail glass. The origins of this drink are unclear, but it is mentioned in bartender's recipe ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy a remark capable of wounding mentally; "the unkindest cut of all" [syn: cut ] a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, agent noun from sting (v.). As an animal part, from 1889; earlier in this sense was sting (n.).

Usage examples of stinger.

Afghanistan, and the factories producing Stinger missiles and recoilless artillery pieces were quite safe from Soviet attack.

Im talkin trees you cant even see roun, trees got snicks an stingers so big you dont want to think what maybe lookin at you there.

They were all over him, chewing and thrashing at the fabric of his suit with their teeth and spiny legs, digging their heads and stingers down into his flesh.

So far, there was no sign of antiair activity, not even of a Stinger squad, much less anything more sophisticated.

Their only hope was to get inside the Cebu defensive screen and strike the great pegasi down by bullet or stinger, even though the latter method would mean their own deaths as well.

When the attack began, Claudia manipulated her model Hinds and there were enthusiastic cheers from the watching Shanganes as one by one they were brought crashing to earth by volleys of Stinger missiles.

Once the Hinds had been destroyed, they must have abandoned their Stingers and rushed up the hill to join the sack of the laager.

Although Nora knew they had to be holographically generated, like everything else, they looked amazingly real as they came straight at her, each with a vicious stinger extruded from its abdomen, gleaming with venom.

The demonlord seized the stinger and placed one of its peds on her mantle, next to the wound.

The old prop-job planes of the Rebels could not hope to evade any kind of Stinger or surface-to-air missiles.

Over the past several months I have fired more than 5,000 Stingers in a variety of rimfire arms, both domestic and foreign.

In selecting your survival stores, add some high velocity solids or some semi-hollow points to your Stingers and you should be well supplied for any chores that you could reasonably expect your rimfire firearm to perform.

Factory starts work as soon as we shut down the stinger and finish filing all the paperwork via our lawyers.

Thirty specialised probes hung on telemetric cables from the underside of the gondola, dangling like the venom-tipped stingers of some grotesque aerial jellyfish.

People with lobster claws instead of hands, legs fused or amputated to make room for stingers or spinnerets, heads that in no way matched the bodies they were attached to.