stinger

Etymology
. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.

Noun

 * 1) A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
 * 2) Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
 * 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.
 * 6) A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.
 * 7) A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.
 * 8) A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.
 * 9)  A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade.
 * 10) A short musical phrase or chord used non-diegetically to dramatic or emphatic effect.
 * 11)  A final note played at the end of a military march.
 * 12)  An extension cord.
 * 13)  A stinging nettle.
 * , an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.
 * 1)  An improvised heating element used to boil or heat water in prison.
 * 1)  A stinging nettle.
 * , an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.
 * 1)  An improvised heating element used to boil or heat water in prison.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡаяу
 * Belarusian: джа́ла
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: pikilo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ferrete,, ferrón
 * Georgian: ნესტარი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κέντρον
 * Greenlandic: iguut
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: neegla
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 毒針
 * Kalmyk: хатхур
 * Kayapó: tey
 * Kazakh: шаншар
 * Latin: aculeus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: geluonis
 * Macedonian: осило, жило
 * Navajo: azǫ́ǫ́z
 * Norwegian: brodd
 * Ottoman Turkish: آری دیكنی, ایكنه, ابره
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жаока, жалац, бодља, бодљика, боцка
 * Roman:, , , , bocka
 * Slovak: žihadlo
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: чагак
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: asir
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: жа́ло
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: שטאָך


 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: hoto
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, , , ,
 * Welsh: atgno