dinger
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How to use dinger in a sentence
La Russa called the dinger a “big mistake,” said Mercedes was “clueless,” joked that he’d spank Mercedes if the athlete wasn’t so big and strong, and insisted such a disrespectful home run wouldn’t come off Mercedes’s bat again.
We tried to keep up with them, but that little plane is a hum-dinger for speed and it soon outstripped us.
Polly's Southern Cruise | Lillian Elizabeth Roy"Why, she's a hum-dinger," returned Baptiste more curiously.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxRing-a-dinger, ring-a-dinger went the dinner bell all unheeded.
Kipps | H. G. WellsThat night they took in a show which was a "hum dinger," and should have endured a life-time.
Skookum Chuck Fables | Skookum Chuck (pseud for R.D. Cumming)
"I s'pose we could swing that dinger back and forth if we couldn't do nothin' else," Gizzard admitted resignedly.
Sube Cane | Edward Bellamy Partridge
British Dictionary definitions for dinger
/ (ˈdɪŋə) /
US an informal word for home run
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