Noun

(en noun)

A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.

Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

The thing stopped then and looked at me a moment as much as to say: "Why this thing has a stinger ! I must be careful." And then it reached out its long neck and opened its mighty jaws and grabbed for me; but I wasn't there.

Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically

a cocktail of brandy and

A device used by police and military forces consisting of a portable bed of nails to puncture car tires.

A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.

A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.

A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.

(slang) A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade.

(slang) A final note played at the end of a military march.

(slang, television and film) An extension cord.

Noun

(en noun)

A person who stinks.

(slang) A contemptible person.

* I won't date Mary Jane again. I thought she was a stinker to leave before the end of the movie.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter II , passage=Never be a stinker , because if you are, though you may flourish for a time like a green bay tree, sooner or later retribution will overtake you.}}

(slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).

* Today's crossword is a stinker .

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter V , passage=I number several authors among my aquaintance [...] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort.}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter X , passage=I sat there seething with fury. And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker'. [...] I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. I... Oh, I can't remember what else I said but, as I say, it was a ' stinker .}}

(slang) Something of poor quality.

* April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Dark Tide [http://www.avclub.com/articles/dark-tide,72548/]

The barely-released stinker Dark Tide continues Stockwell’s fetishistic pattern, coming alive whenever it’s paddling among the sharks off the South African coast and settling in for a long snooze once it gets back on the boat or reaches dry land.

Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.

A chemist.