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dinger

[ ding-er ]
/ ˈdɪŋ ər /
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noun Slang.

humdinger.
Baseball. home run.

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RELATED WORDS

single, buzzer, siren, gong, ringer, alarm, buzz, tocsin, ding-dong, peal, toll, carillon, chime, curfew, vesper, clapper, warning, signal, bell, tintinnabulum

Nearby words

  1. ding-dong,
  2. dingaan,
  3. dingbat,
  4. dingbats,
  5. dinge,
  6. dinges,
  7. dinghy,
  8. dingle,
  9. dingleberry,
  10. dingo

Origin of dinger

1800–10; perhaps ding1 + -er1
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for dinger

  • “If you can throw a scare into Lance, you sure are a dinger,” he bantered.

    Rim o' the World|B. M. Bower

  • "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

  • She'll ne'er backward linger, this land of our dads, for she is a dinger at nailing the scads.

    Rippling Rhymes|Walt Mason

British Dictionary definitions for dinger

dinger

/ (ˈdɪŋə) /

noun

US an informal word for home run
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for dinger

dinger

n.

"something superlative," 1809, American English, agent noun from ding (v.).

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