dinger
See also: Dinger
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)ə(ɹ)/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)
Noun
dinger (plural dingers)
- A bell or chime.
- 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet (1997), →ISBN, page 47:
- Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
- 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet (1997), →ISBN, page 47:
- (baseball) A home run.
- The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.
- 1989, John Holway, "Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs", Baseball Digest, June 1989:
- He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.
- 1997, Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball, University of Nebraska Press (2003), →ISBN, page 264:
- Then as you're taking his picture, say something about the thirty dingers he's going to hit this season. You get that little extra smile on his face.
- 2008, Mike Stone & Art Regner, The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists, Running Press (2008), →ISBN, page 209:
- For you youngsters out there, hitting 50 dingers in the pre-steroid craze days of the early 90s was an actual accomplishment; the only questionable substance Fielder was putting in his body were McRib sandwiches.
- (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
- 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado (1994), →ISBN, page 131:
- "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."
- 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado (1994), →ISBN, page 131:
- (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
- 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 4, p. 28,
- Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”
- 1998, Earl Emerson, Catfish Café, New York: Ballantine, Chapter 1, p. 3,
- “I won’t lie to you. She been in trouble the last couple years, but she got herself wrapped up in a real dinger this time.”
- 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 4, p. 28,
- (Australian slang, dated) A condom.
- (Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.
- Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
- 1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson (1955), page 6:
- "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."
- 1979, Derek Maitland, Breaking Out, Allen Lane (1979), page 63:
- And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
- 1988, Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary, University of Queensland Press (1988), →ISBN, page 109:
- "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"
- (Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
- 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press (2010), →ISBN, page 59:
- We made our 'dingers' (as we called them) out of truck tyre inner tubes that were heavy-duty rubber that could shoot a stone a very long distance.
- 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press (2010), →ISBN, page 59:
Synonyms
- (penis): see also Thesaurus:penis
- (buttocks, anus): ding
- (condom): franger
- See also Thesaurus:condom
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