A stinger is an organ or body part found in various animals, typically arthropods, that usually delivers some kind of venom.

Stinger may also refer to:

Military and transport

  • A type of military camouflage with a primarily yellow base
  • A brand of radar detector/LIDAR detector
  • Operation Stinger, a military operation during the Croatian War of Independence

Aircraft

  • The AC-119K version of Fairchild AC-119 gunship was nicknamed Stinger
  • Preceptor Stinger, an American single-seat parasol-wing ultralight design
  • Rans S-17 Stinger, an American single-seat ultralight design
  • Rans S-18 Stinger II, an American two-seat ultralight design
  • Williams W-17 Stinger, an American racing aircraft design

Automobiles

  • Kia Stinger, a sport sedan
  • Pacer Stinger, a 1976 show car by American Motors
  • Stinger (law enforcement), a bait car system developed by BSM Wireless
  • Police slang for a spike strip, a device used in pursuits to deflate vehicle tires

Ships

  • , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
  • Stinger, an extension over board the stern of an offshore pipe lay barge used to provide additional support at the over bend of an S-lay during offshore construction

Weapons

  • FIM-92 Stinger, a surface-to-air missile
  • Air-to-Air Stinger, derived from the FIM-92
  • M2 Stinger, a USMC field modification of the .30 AN/M2 Browning machine gun variant
  • Stinger grenade or sting grenade, a type of hand grenade
  • Stinger round, a type of specialty ammunition for shotguns
  • Stinger, a series of airsoft guns manufactured by Crosman

Sports

  • Edmonton Stingers, a professional basketball team in Canada
  • Salt Lake Stingers, former name of the Salt Lake Bees Minor League Baseball team
  • "Stinger", a nickname for American professional wrestler Steve Borden aka Sting
  • Stinger, is a mascot name for teams such as the Columbus Blue Jackets and Baldwin Wallace University
  • Stinger, in golf terminology, a type of shot

Entertainment

  • Stinger (comics), any of several comic book characters named Stinger
  • Stinger, a 1988 science fiction horror novel by Robert R. McCammon
  • Stingers (TV series) (1998–2004) Australian police drama television series
  • Stinger (radio), a short sound clip used to divide sections of a radio program or podcast, also known as a sounder
  • Stinger (filmmaking), film industry slang for a post-credits scene
  • Stinger (arcade game), a 1983 arcade shoot 'em up by Seibu Denshi
  • Moero TwinBee: Cinnamon-hakase o Sukue!, a 1986 Family Computer game that was released in 1987 for the Nintendo Entertainment System under the title of Stinger
  • Stinger (Dorney Park), a defunct roller coaster in Allentown, Pennsylvania, US
  • Stinger, a final note used at the end of some American march music
  • Stinger, a man-made Transformer from Transformers: Age of Extinction
  • Stinger Guitars, made by C. F. Martin & Company
  • The Stinger (album)

Other

  • Cynthia Stinger (born 1958), American handballer
  • Henry J. Stinger (1857–1925), American politician
  • Stinger (cocktail), a drink composed of brandy and white creme de menthe
  • Stinger (sculpture), an outdoor work by Tony Smith in Seattle, Washington, US
  • Stinger (medicine), a minor neurological injury suffered by athletes
  • Stinger, the conductor with higher voltage to neutral than the other two conductors in a high-leg delta three-phase electric power system

See also

  • Sting (disambiguation)
  • Stung (disambiguation)