dinger

[ ding-er ]

/ ˈdɪŋ ər /

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noun Slang.

humdinger.

Baseball. home run.

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Origin of dinger

1800–10; perhaps ding¹ + -er¹

Words nearby dinger

ding an sich, dingbat, dingbats, ding-dong, dinge, dinger, dinges, dinghy, dingle, dingleberry, Ding Ling

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.
Baseball’s Most Disrespectful Home Runs|Alex Kirshner|June 14, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
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 Micheaux
Ring-a-dinger, ring-a-dinger went the dinner bell all unheeded.
Kipps|H. G. Wells

That 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

dinger

/ (ˈdɪŋə) /

noun

US an informal word for home run

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