Noun

(-)

* 2008 January 19, :

Apparently also the Saudis gave him as presents fabulous bling , vast necklaces encrusted with jewels and rubies.

Ostentatious display of richness or style.

* {{quote-news, year=2012

, date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=His stance as being against the world of finance and his proposal of a 75% tax on incomes over €1m (£817,000) was approved by a majority in polls. He was convinced that his more measured, if ploddingly serious, style would win out with an electorate tired of Sarkozy's bling and frenetic policy initiatives.}}

Noun

(en noun)

(computing, dated) The symbol (an exclamation mark).

* 1989 , "John Littler, John Maher", Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing

This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.

* 1994 , "C.P. Brown", HAhAhA'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.advocacy )

IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.

* 1994 , Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines

Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.

* 1996 , "Tim Wiser", Pling thing revisited'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.apps )

Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling -inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).