dinger
UK/ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)ə(ɹ)/
dinger noun: a bell or chime.
Noun
dinger (plural dingers)
- A bell or chime.
- Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet, published 1997, →ISBN, page 47
- The suspended clapper of a bell.
- One who rings a bell.
- A home run.
- The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.
- He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.1989 June, John Holway, “Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs”, in Baseball Digest
- The penis.
- "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado, published 1994, →ISBN, page 131
- Synonyms:
- anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad
- Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
- ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 21
- Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 4, in The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, published 1951, page 28
- A condom.
- Synonyms:
- condom, cum catcher, rubber
- The buttocks, the anus.
- Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
- "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson, published 1955, page 6
- Synonyms:
- ding
- A catapult, a shanghai.
- We made our 'dingers' (as we called them) out of truck tyre inner tubes that were heavy-duty rubber that could shoot a stone a very long distance.2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 59
- An unregistered car.
Proper noun capitalized: Dinger
Dinger (plural Dingers)
- A surname from German.
Examples of dinger in a sentence
- Then as you're taking his picture, say something about the thirty dingers he's going to hit this season.1997, Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball, University of Nebraska Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 264:
- She been in trouble the last couple years, but she got herself wrapped up in a real dinger this time.”1998, Earl Emerson, chapter 1, in Catfish Café, New York: Ballantine, page 3:
- And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?1979, Derek Maitland, Breaking Out, Allen Lane, published 1979, page 63:
- Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"1988, Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary, University of Queensland Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 109:
Synonyms of dinger
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Forms of dinger
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dingers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Dingers |
Origin of dinger
From ding + -er.
Borrowed from German Dinger.
Words that rhyme with dinger
Questions about dinger
- What does dinger mean?
- Dinger means a bell or chime.
- How do you use dinger in a sentence?
- Then as you're taking his picture, say something about the thirty dingers he's going to hit this season.
- What part of speech is dinger?
- Dinger can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce dinger?
- Dinger is pronounced /ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)ə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dinger?
- The plural of dinger is dingers.
Words near dinger in the dictionary
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