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sting verb- to swindle someone; to cheat, to rob someone UK, 1812
- To anyone he could buttonhole, he bragged about how he had “stung” this person or “skinned” that one. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 308, 1953
- I saw him the day after Limpy had stung me in the hallway on 149th Street. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 176, 1965
- How the hell did you rip it off, Jan? I ain’t taught you how to sting. — Donald Goines, Daddy Cool, p. 166, 1974
- in horseracing, to shock a horse with an electrical device during a race US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 60, 1951
▶ sting between the toes (from a male perspective) to have sex AUSTRALIA- So if youse tell a potato [woman] youse love her she’ll let you sting her between the toes with the old pyjama python-shit! — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
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