Dinger

Meaning

A bell or chime..

Definitions by Sense

1. A bell or chime.
2. The suspended clapper of a bell.
3. One who rings a bell.
4. (baseball) A home run.
5. (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
6. (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
7. (Australia, slang) A condom.
8. (Australia, slang) The buttocks, the anus.

Example Sentences

Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.

The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.

He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.

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.

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.

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

‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’

Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”

Word Forms

• dingers

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