dingbats
Britishplural noun
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slang delirium tremens
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informal to make someone nervous
adjective
Example Sentences
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A 90-minute ramble revealed L.A.’s familiar extremes: big houses alongside dingbats, the shock of the unexpected coinciding with numbing dullness.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023
Soft-story apartments, also known as dingbats, have flimsy poles on the ground floor that prop up carports and can snap in an earthquake.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023
As with brownstones and dingbats, distaste can dissolve with time.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2023
When asked about either of them bring cage-side for the Poirier fight, he replied, "I couldn’t care about them two dingbats."
From Fox News • Jul. 9, 2021
"You flatter me," said George, reaching bruskly across me as if he were after the salt and pepper, and adjusting a couple of dingbats on the steering wheel.
From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.
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