Meaning of ringy-dingy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A telephone ring.
   colloquial
2. A call; a ring (an instance of calling someone on the telephone).
   colloquial

Examples

“I stumbled to my car to call the barn owner. After many ringy-dingies, I gave up.”

“Each time you answered a call, while the caller was still hearing “one ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies,” you heard a recording offering four ways to handle the call: “Press 1 to accept, 2 to send to voice mail, 3 to listen in on voice mail, or 4 to accept and record the call.””

“Her “first significant wig,” she said, was for Ernestine, the snorting, power-drunk telephone-operator character (“One ringy-dingy!”) made famous on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.””

“Andrew Vautier made a ringy-dingy... > Give me a call! Give me a house!”

“Give me a ringy-dingy or a number to call and you'll see!! ;)”

“I had a pant load of calls on my answering machine today. I truly appreciated Dubya taking time out from his busy war to give me a ringy-dingy.”

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