stingray
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈstɪŋreɪ/
- Specialized
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dispositivo StingRay
- My dad served aboard the USS Stingray SS186.
- Stingray device
Examples
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BARKER: I need a stingray van immediately, Los Angeles area.
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Colombian military is setting up a couple stingrays in the region now.
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The last missions of the Stingray were considered classified until recently. My dad died in 2000; he never knew their efforts were successful.
Blog text (11) -
She wants to be turned over, tied down, beaten like a ferret in heat, and spanked with a stingray.
Fiction book (1999) -
But the boy's turning and running off again, leaving Danny in the open by himself, and so he runs, also, but the other way, back to the island and the racks of bikes between the trees, and he squats down behind them, opening and closing the combination lock on his Stingray, and looking through the bars and spokes at the game, the girls.
Fiction book (2001) -
Law enforcement agencies use a stingray to track the location of suspected criminals by mimicking a cell tower.
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The new stingray used by the police is designed to collect data from nearby mobile phones without detection.
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Detectives relied on the stingray to gather evidence by intercepting calls and messages from targeted devices.
Compounds
- Specialized
A large flat sea animal with a rough tail that lives from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stingray for the surveillance device is named by comparison with the fish, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of sting as 'to prick' and the device 'reaching out' to phones like a ray reaches with its tail, because it pretends to be a phone tower and grabs phone identifiers. So a stingray in this sense is a portable tool used to find or track mobile phones.