Zinger vs Dinger - What's the difference?
zinger | dinger |
A very rapidly moving object, especially one that is thrown.
A surprising or unusually pointed or telling remark.
An event that when experienced leaves the witness dazed, either physically or metaphorically.
An outstanding, energetic and surprising thing or person.
A bell or chime.
* 1997 , Sarah Gregory, Public Trust , Signet (1997), ISBN 9780451190765, page 47:
(baseball) A home run.
* 1989 , John Holway, "
* 1997 , Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball , University of Nebraska Press (2003), ISBN 0803266391,
* 2008 , , The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists , Running Press (2008), ISBN 9780762433544,
(North America, slang) The penis.
* 1994 , Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm , University Press of Colorado (1994), ISBN 9780553565409, page 131:
(Australian slang, dated) A condom.
(Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.
* 1955 , Norman Bartlett, Island Victory , Angus and Robertson (1955),
* 1979 , Derek Maitland, Breaking Out , Allen Lane (1979),
* 1988 , Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary , University of Queensland Press (1988), ISBN 9780702221583,
(Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
* 2010 , , Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family , Anu E Press (2010), ISBN 9781921666209,
As nouns the difference between zinger and dinger
is that zinger is a very rapidly moving object, especially one that is thrown while dinger is .zinger
English
Noun
(en noun)- The pitcher threw a real zinger and struck him out.
- My little niece let fly with the zinger that my sister was pregnant again.
- I was still reeling from the zinger of seeing my ex on a date with my best friend.
Synonyms
* one-linerdinger
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
- The starting pitcher gave up three dingers .
Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs", Baseball Digest , June 1989:
- He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers .
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- 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.
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- 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.
- "He had a red wool sock on his dinger . That's all."
- Let?s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
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- "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."
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- And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
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- "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger !"
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- 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.
