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ding-a-ling

 
(dĭng'ə-lĭng) pronunciation
n. Slang
A scatterbrained or eccentric person.


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    A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy: crackpot, crazy, eccentric, lunatic. Informal crank, loon, loony. Slang cuckoo, dingbat, kook, nut, screwball, weirdie, weirdo. See wise/foolish.

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noun, N Amer

1:
A crazy person; an eccentric or oddball. (1940 —) .
J. Carroll Hell, Pius—that dingaling—would never of given me my hat. Thank God for Pope John (1978).

2:
The penis. (1972 —) .
R. H. Rimmer My damned ding-a-ling was pointing my bathrobe into a tent (1975).

[In sense 1, from earlier sense, prisoner driven mad by confinement.]


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