bingle
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bingle1
1900–05, perhaps b(at) 1 + (s)ingle
Origin of bingle2
Example Sentences
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"I," said O'Hara, "am goin' as a bingle."
From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
You don't remember nothing, all on account of that bingle you got on the head.
From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson
He played the sun-field like a master, You never saw a fielder faster, And oh, how he could bingle!
From Right off the Bat Baseball Ballads by William F. Kirk
If I try to make a hit with the ladies it's a bingle; and it's the bench and the bush-league for muh—" "You great, overgrown kid!
From The Common Law by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
I'd love to see the Bing Boys bingle, To go to music-halls incog.,
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 by Various
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