wingdingerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

wingdinger (plural wingdingers)

1. (US, slang) A particularly energetic and boisterous event.
   • 1961, Alan Wagner, Prima Donnas and Other Wild Beasts‎, Larchmont, N.Y.: Argonaut Books, page 70:

     The recent Tebaldi-Callas fracas was largely fluff compared with some of the wingdingers that have happened in the past, but it was enough fun to command headline space, and stories in Time.

   • 2015, Tina Leonard, The Cowboy SEAL's Triplets‎, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 48:

     One didn't sign up to be a fall guy in Bridesmaids Creek willy-nilly. This crew could think up some wingdingers.

   • 2018, Ben Fountain, Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country That Voted for Him‎, Edinburgh: Canongate, →ISBN, page 219:

     The crowd is bonkers. They're getting just what they came for, a massive wingdinger of an InfoWars smackdown. Alex Jones is undefeated at one-on-none.

Further reading

• “wing-dinger n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.
• “wing-dinger, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.