Crossword clues for dinger
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"something superlative," 1809, American English, agent noun from ding (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A bell or chime. 2 (context baseball English) A home run. 3 (context North America slang English) The penis. 4 (context Australian slang dated English) A condom. 5 (context Australian slang English) The buttocks, the anus. 6 (context Australian slang English) A catapult, a shanghai.
Wikipedia
Dinger can refer to:
- Baseball argot for a home run
- The mascot of the Colorado Rockies baseball team
- A type of bell-headed monster from the children's television show Sesame Street
- A pseudonym/nickname for SAS Bravo Two Zero patrol member, Ian Pring.
- A character in the 1989 film Dream a Little Dream
- OED: "Something superlative in a positive sense"
- Dinger or dingir, the Ancient Sumerian word for "god."
- Nickname for NASCAR Sprint Cup driver AJ Allmendinger.
- Damaged but new merchandise
- Slang term for a pinch of Dipping tobacco
- Something I hit
Dinger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Derek Dinger (born 1987), German ice hockey player
- Fritz Dinger (1915–1943), German World War II flying ace
- John R. Dinger (born 1953), American diplomat
- Klaus Dinger (1946–2008), German drummer and guitarist, brother of Thomas.
- Larry Miles Dinger (born 1946), American diplomat
- Thomas Dinger (1952–2002), German musician, brother of Klaus.
Category:German-language surnames
Usage examples of "dinger".
Dinger said, full of appreciation, inhaling deeply as if he was on the se afront at Yarmouth.
She had just left the children alone again with Arlethan Dinger, apostate priest of Kalirion and agent of Thomas Cedarbird.
Dinger stood by the last tank with one in his hands, stroking its head and murmuring words in a language that Cedarbird did not recognize.
There was hollering all around me, but I was trying to listen out for another group so I could keep tabs on Dinger.
Dinger opened foil sachets of bangers and beans and got them on the go.
Dinger and I both had headsets on, and we looked at one another as we listened to the crew.
Three or four cups of tea and, in Dingers case, three cigarettes later, we tuned in to the World Service.
We took the piss out of Dingers radio because its held together with bits of tape and string.
I whispered into Dingers ear, unsure if wed been put together because the cell was bugged.
My body was becoming even more of a mess, but the worst bit about it was hearing them in Stans or Dingers room.
But Dinger, the model diplomat, every time the major turned up now hed get a fag out of him.