German

Noun

Dinger n

1. plural of Ding

English

Noun

dinger ‎(plural dingers)

1. A bell or chime.
   • 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet (1997), ISBN 9780451190765, page 47:

     Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.

2. (baseball) A home run.

   The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.

   • 1989, John Holway, "Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs", Baseball Digest, June 1989:

     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 (2003), ISBN 0803266391, 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 (2008), ISBN 9780762433544, 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.

3. (Canada, US, slang) The ****.
   • 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado (1994), ISBN 9780553565409, page 131:

     "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."

4. (Australian slang, dated) A condom.
5. (Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.

   Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.

   • 1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson (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 (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 (1988), ISBN 9780702221583, page 109:

     "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"

6. (Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
   • 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press (2010), ISBN 9781921666209, 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.

Synonyms

• (****): see also Wikisaurus:****
• (buttocks, anus): ding
• (condom): franger
• See also Wikisaurus:condom

See also

• double
• single
• triple

Anagrams

• dering, engird, girned, reding, ringed