dinger

[ding-er]

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noun Slang.

humdinger.

Baseball. home run.

Origin of dinger

1800–10; perhaps ding¹ + -er¹

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Related Words for dinger

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

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Historical Examples of dinger

“If you can throw a scare into Lance, you sure are a dinger,” he bantered.
Rim o' the World
B. M. Bower
She'll ne'er backward linger, this land of our dads, for she is a dinger at nailing the scads.
Rippling Rhymes
Walt Mason
"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

noun

US an informal word for home run

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Word Origin and History for dinger

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