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Meaning of dinger | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)ə(ɹ)/

Definitions

  1. A bell or chime.
  2. A surname from German.
  3. The suspended clapper of a bell.
  4. One who rings a bell.
  5. A home run.
  6. The penis.
    Canada, US, slang
  7. Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
    US, slang
  8. A condom.
    Australia, slang
  9. The buttocks, the anus.
    Australia, slang
  10. A catapult, a shanghai.
    Australia, slang
  11. An unregistered car.
    Multicultural-London-English, slang

Examples

“Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.”
“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.”
“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.”
“"He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."”
“‘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.””
“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?”
“"Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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