Main entry: flimflam, sting, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, hustle, gyp, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game
Definition: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Main entry: bite, sting, insect bite
Definition: a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
Definition: a mental pain or distress
Usage: a pang of conscience
Definition: a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
Usage: the sting of death; he felt the stinging of nettles
Definition: saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
Usage: They stuck me with the dinner bill; I was stung with a huge tax bill
Main entry: bite, sting, prick
Definition: deliver a sting to
Usage: A bee stung my arm yesterday
Main entry: sting
Definition: cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
Usage: His remark stung her
Definition: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
Usage: The sun burned his face
Main entry: prick, twinge, sting
Definition: cause a stinging pain
Usage: The needle pricked his skin