n. Slang
A scatterbrained or eccentric person.
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ding-a-ling
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n. Slang
A scatterbrained or eccentric person.
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noun
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.]
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.]
| ding, dinero, dinah | |
| ding-dong, dingbat, dinge |
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