Meaning of Jingle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
2. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
3. A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.
4. A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.
5. A carriage drawn by horses.
6. A brief telephone call.
   slang
7. A jingle shell.
8. Coin money.
   slang, uncountable
9. Pee, urine.
   Philippines, colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.”

“Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.”

“That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.”

“The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.””

“They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.”

“Give me a jingle when you find out something.”

“If all you folks who donate your hard-earned jingle to PETA aren't convinced of your ill-advised ways yet, you should probably check this out.”

“Kao Wen-huan, a member of the Chinglo county CCP core group and commanding general of the Chinglo county revolutionary rebellion general command (former magistrate of Chinglo country), also highly praised representatives of mass organizations he had worked with in the revolutionary "three-way alliance" provisional organ of power for their class awareness and their indomitable revolutionary spirit.”

“According to a survey of 19 villages in Jingle County, Shanxi Province, 880 of the 5,758 peasant households sold land, as a result of which 167 old middle-peasant households declined in status to poor peasants, similar to the way the status of 471 new middle-peasant households which had just acquired land declined during the land reform.”

Economic Changes in Rural China

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