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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ding-dong
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ding-dong

dingdong \ding"dong`\, ding-dong \ding-dong\, n. [See Ding.]

  1. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

  2. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

  3. a stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense. [slang]

    Syn: ding-a-ling, doofus. [PJC]

Wiktionary
ding-dong

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 the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

WordNet
ding-dong

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.