pling

A soft bell-like sound; ding.

Noun

  1. A soft bell-like sound; ding.

Origin

Imitative.

Forms

plings

Noun computing, engineering

  1. The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
    • This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator. - 1989, John Littler, John Maher, Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing:
    • IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things. - 1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet):
    • Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal...

Forms

plings

Related

bang

Verb

  1. To produce a soft bell-like sound.
    • The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta. - 2019, Philip Gwynne Jones, The Venetian Masquerade:

Forms

plings plinging plinged