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say it: ZING-ur
zinger is a noun meaning "a striking or amusing or caustic remark". It is pronounced /ˈzɪŋɚ/ — ZING-ur. It carries one recorded sense.
a striking or amusing or caustic remark
“he always greeted me with a new zinger”
“she tried to think of some killer of an argument, a real zinger that would disarm all opposition”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for zinger come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.