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What does this phrase mean?

What does this phrase mean?

Sea-Confection-4278
I saw an ambulance in Melbourne helping a poor guy who had been hit by a taxi, and I noticed a phrase painted on its window. It said, "patient's own stingos applied," but I’m confused about the meaning. When I googled "stingo," it said it’s British slang for beer, which doesn’t seem to fit. Could it be slang for medicine used to treat bug bites because of the word "sting"? Thanks in advance!
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kmoonster•
"Stingo", maybe sting ointment? The paramedics are rightly annoyed at being called for a days old incident that was resolved with ointment the caller already had available. Granted it's Australia where everything wants to kill you, but still! edit: might be a mis-spelling of this: [Insect Bite Gel | Fast Relief for Stings & Bites | Stingose](https://www.stingose.com.au/)
Reader124-Logan•
https://www.stingose.com.au/
JackRabbit-•
Australians like to use -o as slang for some words. For example you may have noticed liquor stores before referred to as bottle-o's, afternoons being referred to as "arvo", or people saying "defo" in place of "definitely". So this is likely slang for sting medication.
cyphar•
[Stingose](https://www.stingose.com.au/) is an Aussie brand of medication (most commonly a cream) applied to insect bites to stop them from being itchy, they just misspelled it.
DazzlingClassic185•
Stingo is not the slang for beer in any part of Britain where I’ve been drinking! Have you been trusting AI?
sugarloaf85•
You've pretty much got it, OP. (I'm from Sydney). "This tired paramedic was called, in full emergency mode, to look at a three day old insect bite. We treated it by applying anti insect sting medication that the patient had themselves" (as others have said, Stingose is a very popular brand of cream to apply to insect bites)
sarahlizzy•
If it’s British slang for beer, then it’s not a term I’m familiar with. Source: am British, drink beer.