Pronunciations
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/ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)ə(ɹ)/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Noun
A bell or chime.
- Examples
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Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
The suspended clapper of a bell.
One who rings a bell.
A home run.
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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.
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Then as you're taking his picture, say something about the thirty dingers he's going to hit this season. You get that little extra smile on his face.
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.
The penis.
Usage- Canada
- US usage
- Slang
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"He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."
Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
Usage- US usage
- Slang
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‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’
Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”
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“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.”
A condom.
Usage- Australia
- Slang
The buttocks, the anus.
Usage- Australia
- Slang
- Synonyms
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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."
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And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
"Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"
A catapult, a shanghai.
Usage- Australia
- Slang
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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.
An unregistered car.
Usage- Multicultural-London-English
- Slang