Ding-dong
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 One of several sounds that might be made by a bell.
"Near-synonyms: ding-a-ling, ring-a-ding, ringaling, tingaling"
- 2 the noise made by a bell wordnet
- 3 A woman's breast. slang
- 4 A penis. slang
"Oh, no, man, I haven't got the time time / Too busy sucking on a ding-dong / She's busy sucking on my ding-dong"
- 5 A fight, an argument; a set-to. slang
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- 6 An idiot. slang
- 7 An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
- 1 To ring with two tones, like a bell swinging back and forth. intransitive
- 1 Closely fought. informal, not-comparable
"It was first blood to the Black Cats in the ding-dong clash when Bardsley, a right-footer playing on the left, collected the ball from just inside his own half and sped up to the edge of the area before launching an effort which appeared to confuse Petr Cech in goal."
Example
More examples"Have you ever played ding-dong ditch?"
Etymology
Mid 16th century, imitative of the alternate chimes of a bell. For sense of penis, compare Saterland Frisian Ding (“penis”), German Low German Dings (“penis”), English thing.
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