dinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dingers
Etymology: From ding + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
ref: 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet, published 1997, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: A bell or chime.
glosses: The suspended clapper of a bell.
glosses: One who rings a bell.
examples: text: The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.
text: He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.
ref: 1989 June, John Holway, “Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs”, in Baseball Digest:
text: 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.
ref: 1997, Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball, University of Nebraska Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 264:
text: 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.
ref: 2008, Mike Stone, Art Regner, The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists, Running Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 209:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A home run.
examples: text: "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."
ref: 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado, published 1994, →ISBN, page 131:
synonyms: word: anaconda
word: baloney pony
word: bald-headed hermit
word: banana
word: birdie
word: bobby
word: boonga
word: cack
word: choad
word: choda
word: chode
word: chopper
word: cigar
word: cock
word: corey
word: crank
word: cucumber
word: custard launcher
word: D
word: dick
word: dicklet
word: diddle
word: diddly
word: dingaling
word: ding-a-ling
word: ding-dong
word: dinger
word: dingle
word: dingus
word: dingy
word: dink
word: dinkle
word: dipstick
word: dirk
word: disco stick
word: dog bone
word: dong
word: donger
word: Donkey Kong
word: doodle
word: dork
word: down
word: fire hose
word: fuckpole
word: gherkin
word: hairy canary
word: hammer
word: hog
word: hot dog
word: hot rod
word: hoo-hoo
word: hooter
word: it
word: jade stalk
word: jamoke
word: jigger
word: jimmy
word: jock
word: johnson
word: John Thomas
word: joint
word: Jonathan
word: joystick
word: kielbasa
word: knob
word: lad
word: langer
word: lingam
word: love muscle
word: love stick
word: love truncheon
word: love sausage
word: love wand
word: machine
word: magnum
word: Master John Goodfellow
word: male member
word: manhood
word: man-meat
word: meat
word: meat puppet
word: meat rod
word: meat scepter
word: meatstick
word: meat stick
word: member
word: membrum virile
word: nature's scythe
word: nob
word: old chap
word: old fellow
word: one-eyed trouser snake
word: organ
word: package
word: pecker
word: peen
word: pee-pee
word: pee-wee
word: pego
word: penis
word: Percy
word: peter
word: phallus
word: pickle
word: piece
word: piece of pork
word: pike
word: pillicock
word: pingas
word: pink cigar
word: pink oboe
word: pintle
word: pipe
word: pisser
word: piston
word: pizzle
word: plonker
word: pork sword
word: prick
word: pud
word: purple-headed yogurt slinger
word: putz
word: p-word
word: python
word: ramrod
word: rape tool
word: rod
word: root
word: rutter
word: salami
word: sausage
word: schlong
word: schmuck
word: sex tool
word: shaft
word: shlong
word: shmekl (qualifier
word: colloquial
word: Yiddish)
word: short arm
word: skin flute
word: snake
word: snausage
word: spitstick
word: stem
word: stretcher
word: sucker
word: swipe
word: tadger
word: tagger
word: tail
word: tallywhacker
word: tarse
word: thing
word: thingy
word: third leg
word: tic tac
word: todger
word: tool
word: trouser monkey
word: trouser snake
word: truncheon
word: tube steak
word: unit
word: virile member
word: wang
word: weapon
word: wee-wee
word: weenie
word: weeny
word: whang
word: wick
word: widgie
word: widdler
word: wiener
word: willie
word: willy
word: wingwang
word: winkle
word: winky
word: yard
word: ying-yang
glosses: The penis.
examples: text: ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 21:
text: Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”
ref: 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 4, in The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, published 1951, page 28:
text: “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.”
ref: 1998, Earl Emerson, chapter 1, in Catfish Café, New York: Ballantine, page 3:
glosses: Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
synonyms: word: condom
word: cum catcher
word: rubber
glosses: A condom.
examples: text: Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
text: "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."
ref: 1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson, published 1955, page 6:
text: And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
ref: 1979, Derek Maitland, Breaking Out, Allen Lane, published 1979, page 63:
text: "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"
ref: 1988, Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary, University of Queensland Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 109:
synonyms: ding
glosses: The buttocks, the anus.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: A catapult, a shanghai.
glosses: An unregistered car.
Related terms: double
single
triple