dinger

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A bell or chime.

   • Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
2. 2

   The suspended clapper of a bell.

3. 3

   One who rings a bell.

4. ›+ 8 more definitionsshow fewer

   1. 4

      A home run.

      • The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.
      • He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.
      • 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.
   2. 5

      The penis.

      • "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."
   3. 6

      Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.

      • ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’
      • Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”
      • “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.”
   4. 7

      A condom.

   5. 8

      The buttocks, the anus.

      • Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
      • "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."
      • And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
   6. 9

      A catapult, a shanghai.

      • 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.
   7. 10

      An unregistered car.

   8. 11

      A surname from German.

The neighborhood

• neighbordouble
• neighborsingle
• neighbortriple