zinger

zinger
 n.— «I’ve experienced what is known as ’zingers’ which is the nerves reconnecting which have often been quite painful but i’ve always remembered these are signs that everything is healing.» —“Katy’s Ecstatic With Her Breast Reduction Results” make[me]heal Sept. 5, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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