dinger
See also: Dinger
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- A bell or chime.
- 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet, published 1997, →ISBN, page 47:
- Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
- The suspended clapper of a bell.
- One who rings a bell.
- (baseball) A home run.
- The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.
- 1989 June, John Holway, “Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs”, in Baseball Digest:
- He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.
- 2008, Mike Stone, Art Regner, The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists, Running Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 209:
- For you youngsters out there, hitting 50 dingers in the pre-steroid craze days of the early 90s was an actual accomplishment; the only questionable substance Fielder was putting in his body were McRib sandwiches.
- (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis
- 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado, published 1994, →ISBN, page 131:
- "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."
- (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 21:
- ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’
- 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 4, in The Grapes of Wrath[1], Penguin, published 1951, page 28:
- Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”
- 1998, Earl Emerson, chapter 1, in Catfish Café[2], New York: Ballantine, page 3:
- “I won’t lie to you. She been in trouble the last couple years, but she got herself wrapped up in a real dinger this time.”
- (Australian slang) A condom.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom
- (Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.
- Synonym: ding
- Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
- 1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson, published 1955, page 6:
- "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."
- 1979, Derek Maitland, Breaking Out, Allen Lane, published 1979, page 63:
- And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
- (Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
- 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 59:
- 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.
- (MLE, slang) An unregistered car.
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