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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)ə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

名詞

dinger (plural dingers)

1. A bell or chime.
   • 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet, published 1997, →ISBN, page 47:

     Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.

2. The suspended clapper of a bell.
3. One who rings a bell.
4. (baseball) A home run.

   The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.

   • 1989 June, John Holway, “Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs”, in Baseball Digest:

     He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.

   • 1997, Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball, University of Nebraska Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 264:

     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.

   • 2008, Mike Stone, Art Regner, The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists, Running Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 209:

     For you youngsters out there, hitting 50 dingers in the pre-steroid craze days of the early 90s was an actual accomplishment; the only questionable substance Fielder was putting in his body were McRib sandwiches.

5. (Canada, US, slang) The penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

   • 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado, published 1994, →ISBN, page 131:

     "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."

6. (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 21:

     ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 4, in The Grapes of Wrath‎, Penguin, published 1951, page 28:

     Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”

   • 1998, Earl Emerson, chapter 1, in Catfish Café‎, New York: Ballantine, page 3:

     “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.”

7. (Australia, slang) A condom.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom

8. (Australia, slang) The buttocks, the anus.

   Synonym: ding

   Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.

   • 1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson, published 1955, page 6:

     "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."

   • 1979, Derek Maitland, Breaking Out, Allen Lane, published 1979, page 63:

     And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?

   • 1988, Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary, University of Queensland Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 109:

     "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"

9. (Australia, slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
   • 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 59:

     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.

10. (MLE, slang) An unregistered car.

参考

• double
• single
• triple

アナグラム

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