Zing

/zɪŋ/ · noun

Meaning

A short high-pitched humming sound, such as that made by a bullet or vibrating string..

Definitions by Sense

1. A short high-pitched humming sound, such as that made by a bullet or vibrating string.
2. (slang) A witty insult or derogatory remark.
3. (uncountable) Zest or vitality.
4. (uncountable, slang) Pleasant or exciting flavour of food.
5. (intransitive) To move very quickly, especially while making a high-pitched hum.
6. (transitive, slang) To address a witty insult or comeback to.
7. (onomatopoeia) A high pitched humming sound.
8. (US, slang) Used to acknowledge a witty comeback, a zinger.

Example Sentences

I heard a zing close to my head and looked up again. Five or six men were lined up on the deck above me with rifles shooting at the shark.

To accompany a meal, the fresh Italian lager Poretti is perfect; Erdinger Weisbier, a wheat beer from Germany, is full of zing;

We are all a second or two older than an astronaut who has been zinging around the Earth at 18000 miles per hour, because of his or her greater speed and the lack of gravity.

When the caller identified herself as from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle my heart zinged. I heard the words we had yearned for since March: They had found a donor marrow, mismatched at one antigen, that might work for Jane.

Goomba: Ouch that was cold! Paragoomba: “What, you’re too good for us? Come off it, sister! Spike Goomba: “Nobody zings us like that! Nobody! Let’s get ’em!”

Something inside of me started a symphony / Zing! Went the strings of my heart

Zing! The joke had rebounded back on the one who started it. "Ouch!" Mama Jane winced ruefully. We all dissolved in laughter at the good-natured repartee.

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• zings
• zinging
• zinged

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