dinger

Noun

1. A bell or chime.
   • Sharon patted the dinger to call for service. - 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet, published 1997, →ISBN, page 47:
2. The suspended clapper of a bell.
3. One who rings a bell.
4. A home run.
   • 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. - 1989 June, John Holway, “Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs”, in Baseball Digest:
   • 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. - 1997, Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League...
5. The penis.
   • "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all." - 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado, published 1994, →ISBN, page 131:

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6. Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
   • ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’ - 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 21:
   • Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.” - 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 4, in The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, published 1951, page 28:
   • “I won’t lie to you. She been in trouble the last couple years, but she got herself wrapped up in a real dinger this time.” - 1998, Earl Emerson, chapter 1, in Catfish Café, New York: Ballantine, page 3:
7. A condom.

   Synonyms: condom cum catcher rubber

8. The buttocks, the anus.
   • Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
   • "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more." - 1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson, published 1955, page 6:
   • And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar? - 1979, Derek Maitland, Breaking Out, Allen Lane, published 1979, page 63:

   Synonyms: ding

9. A catapult, a shanghai.
   • We made our 'dingers' (as we called them) out of truck tyre inner tubes that were heavy-duty rubber that could shoot a stone a very long distance. - 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal...
10. An unregistered car.