[ I or T ] If an insect, plant, or animal stings, it produces a small but painful injury, usually with a poison, by brushing against the skin or making a very small hole in the skin:

[ I or T ] to cause sharp but usually temporary pain:

[ I or T ] If someone's unkind remarks sting, they make you feel upset and annoyed:

[ T ] informal to charge someone a surprisingly large amount of money for something:

[ C or S ] a sudden burning pain in your eyes, on your skin, etc., or the ability to cause such pain:

[ S ] the feeling of being upset by something:

[ C ] UK US stinger a pointed part of an insect, plant, or animal that goes through a person's or animal's skin and leaves behind poison

[ C ] US a carefully planned and complicated plan which deceives people so that criminals can steal something :

[ C ] mainly US a police action to catch criminals in which the police pretend to be criminals:

a very short animation (= film using moving drawings) used as a form of advertising for a brand (= product name), TV channel, etc.