What (who) is ding - definition
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Ding (disambiguation)
ding
ding1
¦ verb make a ringing sound.
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ding2
¦ noun
1. N. Amer. informal a mark or dent on the bodywork of a car or other vehicle.
2. Scottish or dialect a blow on the head.
¦ verb
1. informal, chiefly N. Amer. dent or hit.
2. (ding into) Scottish bump into.
Origin
ME: prob. of Scand. origin.
ding
Southern Americana, short for ding-a-ling, describing a person who is pretty much out to lunch all the time, living in his own little world, maybe not stupid, but might as well be.
He's a real ding.
He's a real ding.
Pronunciation examples for ding
1. till three, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,
Bringing Tabla to the Global Stage _ Zakir Hussain _ Talks at Google
2. # Ding, ding, ding
Ding, ding, ding #
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
3. Ding Ding...
Bronson (2008)
4. Another one of those ding, ding, ding,
Excel In Your First Job & Life _ Antonio Neves _ Talks at Google
5. Dinga-dong-ding.
Shriram Nene _ Fireside Chat _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of ding
1. Staff and agencies Thursday October 13, 2005 Ring–a–ding–ding: Sylvester Stallone.
2. Lowe‘s cash compensation was $5.7 million in 2007, according to Forbes magazine, and stock options worth $10.' million bring the price tag to –– ding, ding ding –– $16.6 million.
3. Researcher Crissie Ding contributed to this report.
4. Ring a ding ding .. Strange that as we finally assembled outside to sound the starting horn all I could hear around me were American accents and foreign voices.
5. From the room I was in I could hear the ding–ding of the trams passing by through much of the night.