# dinger
## English
### Etymology

From ding +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)ə(ɹ)/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

### Noun

dinger (plural dingers)
* A bell or chime.
** 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet, published 1997, →ISBN, page 47:Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
* The suspended clapper of a bell.
* One who rings a bell.
* (baseball) A home run.
    The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.
** 1989 June, John Holway, “Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs”, in Baseball Digest: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, published 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, published 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.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis
** 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado, published 1994, →ISBN, page 131:"He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."
* (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
** 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 21:‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’
** 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 4, in The Grapes of Wrath‎, Penguin, published 1951, page 28:Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”
** 1998, Earl Emerson, chapter 1, in Catfish Café‎, New York: Ballantine, page 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.”
* (Australia, slang) A condom.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom
* (Australia, slang) The buttocks, the anus.
    Synonym: ding
    Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
** 1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson, published 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, published 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, published 1988, →ISBN, page 109:"Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"
* (Australia, slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
** 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press, published 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.
* (MLE, slang) An unregistered car.

### See also

* double
* single
* triple

### Anagrams

* Réding, dering, Grinde, engird, grinde, Ginder, ringed, reding, girned, Dering, Reding