dinger

Etymology

From ding + -er.

noun

1. A bell or chime.
   Sharon patted the dinger to call for service. 1997, Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet, published 1997, page 47
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.
   He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers. 1989 June, John Holway, “Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs”, in Baseball Digest
   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. 1997, Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball, University of Nebraska Press, published 2003, page 264
   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. 2008, Mike Stone, Art Regner, The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists, Running Press, published 2008, page 209
5. (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
   "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all." 1994, Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado, published 1994, page 131
6. (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
   ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’ 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 21
   Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.” 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 4, in The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, published 1951, page 28
   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. 1998, Earl Emerson, chapter 1, in Catfish Café, New York: Ballantine, page 3
7. (Australian slang) A condom.
8. (Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.
   Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
   "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more." 1955, Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson, published 1955, page 6
   And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar? 1979, Derek Maitland, Breaking Out, Allen Lane, published 1979, page 63
   "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!" 1988, Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary, University of Queensland Press, published 1988, page 109
9. (Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
   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. 2010, Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press, published 2010, page 59
10. (MLE, slang) An unregistered car.