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Fight; sound of bells
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ding-dong
Word definitions for ding-dong in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dingdong \ding"dong`\, ding-dong \ding-dong\, n. [See Ding .] The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Another right bitchy ding-dong is in prospect. ▪ Before the two note ding-dong had faded, a baby had started to howl inside.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context informal English) Closely fought. n. 1 (alternative form of ding dong nodot=1 English) (gloss: sound made by a bell) 2 (context slang English) A woman's breast. 3 A fight, an argument; a set-to. 4 An idiot. 5 An attachment to a clock by which ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the noise made by a bell
Usage examples of ding-dong.
Everywhere in England you can see a ding-dong battle ranging to and fro -- in Parliament and in the Government, in the factories and the armed forces, in the pubs and the air-raid shelters, in the newspapers and on the radio.
Your son is anal retentive, obsessive-compulsive, orally fixated, regressive -- a potential ding-dong.
The ding-dongs upstairs had unloaded well-used cordovans on him again.
He of all people would have relished the ding-dong, and he, unlike everyone else, would have been there with his lens sharply focused, pointing the right way and taking inexorable notes at three-point-five frames per second.