zinger

1. informal A particularly witty or cutting remark or retort. She fired back with a zinger that put Tom in his place. He filled his speech with humorous zingers aimed at various people in the audience.

2. informal A shot or throw that moves at an incredibly fast rate. The center let fly a zinger that went straight into the back of the net. She keeps a deck of cards on her desk so she can fling zingers at students whenever they give an incorrect answer.

3. informal A particularly shocking or surprising revelation or piece of news. The novel ends on a real zinger that calls into question everything you thought you knew, setting the stage for a possible sequel. Going through my grandfather's belongings ahead of his funeral, we were hit with the zinger that he had been an international spy back in the 1930s.

4. slang A particularly witty or cutting remark. She came out with quite a zinger that put Tom right back in his place. He filled his speech with humorous zingers aimed at various people in the audience.

zinger

1. n. something nice or fine. What a zinger of a hat!

2. n. a stinging remark. She got off another zinger at her brother.

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References in periodicals archive

The Zingers, who currently boast around 38 members, were formed in 2010 and have since raised around e1/490,000 for local charities.

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And it created a taste sensation, with a mix of zinger flavour, a lot of chicken and the pulled chicken.

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Not wanting to be strictly a loiterer as I chatted with Collins and other customers, I picked up a box each of chocolate Zingers and chocolate creme-filled Twinkles (the traditional Twinkles with the white filling were long gone) and counted more than 30 ingredients in both those snacks, with at least half the ingredients unpronounceable.

Twinkies' last stand

"I've got a zinger coming," he told me, referring to a speech on Russia he would give a few hours later at the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy.

John McCain and why to avoid making idle threats

This journal was, in fact, edited by the young Itshe Zinger (the future Bashevis) and published by him and one of his friends in the local printing press in Bilgoraj.

Recent critical approaches to the work Of Isaac Bashevis Singer: a review article

Editor Sandy Russell said, "We'll miss his 'signature' zingers. He kept our wits sharp trying to match him with clever barbs." Art Director Morgan Wilbur added, "As a member of toastmasters, Ed was adept at 'roasting' each of us in his own jocular way."

NANews journalist retires

* A patronizing letter filled with zingers is sent to an opposing attorney, and a settlement gets delayed three months because of the saber rattling.

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Starr, now in a superstar private practice at Kirkland & Ellis, does occasionally fire off zingers to demonstrate that he, like President Bush, has issues with the wine-swilling Clintonites of Martha's Vineyard.

Starr lite

With his rapid-fire delivery and a sharpshooter's eye for zingers, he has earned his position as gay political sage.

Frank and outspoken: on the eve of President Bush's State of the Union address, gay statesman Barney Frank gives his own assessment of where we stand. (Politics)

In the course of this journey, which literally takes its narrator, Kim, into exile, we meet two families bound closely together: his own, the Yevdokimovs, and that of his best friend Arkady, the Zingers. Both fathers have suffered at the hands of history, Pyotr Yevdokimov as a Russian sniper whose body is shattered in World War II combat, and Yasha Zinger as a detainee whose mind is shattered in a German camp.

Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer. (Translation)

He's tuned in to potent observations nutshelled in other's epigrammatic zingers, as when he quotes Dennis Cooper's witticism that McDermott and McGough "would make better Hollywood Squares personalities than artists." Miller writes that "art journalism, criticism ...

Fecal matters. (Books)

Cushman projects that he will lose half of the company's 2,000 subscribers in the new Peterson-less season but hopes to win new audiences with two marketing "zingers." He plans to return live music for The Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet performances with members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

Hartford Ballet in a 'try anything year

That is to say, the literary genre is that of a major-party platform, the salesmanship's zeal and zingers are pure Perot, and the moral earnestness is first cousin to Hillary Rodham Clinton's "politics of meaning." If Amitai Etzioni doesn't have a winner here, it's not for lack of trying.

The Spirit of Community

As well as his job as a tree surgeon, Doughty is also a member of the Paphos Zingers, an amateur singing group that have raised thousands for charity, in particular, the Paphos CPSG.

Two men and their wheelbarrows walk for cancer charity

Meanwhile, songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland have reached back into their own famed catalog to insert brief versions of "Stop in the Name of Love" and "Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)." The combination of '90s sitcom zingers and '60s Motown sound makes for an odd juxtaposition, and while the show bursts briefly to life in the second act, it's primarily a piece of theatrical plastic.

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