Citations:dinger

Noun: "a bell or chime"

 * 1995 — Lass Small, Not Looking for a Texas Man, Harlequin Books (1995), ISBN 9780373520046, page 8:
 * The night before, she had set her little digital timer and slept. When the dinger suggested it was time, she got up.
 * 1997 — Sarah Gregory, Public Trust, Signet (1997), ISBN 9780451190765, page 47:
 * Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
 * 1998 — Annie Kimberlin, Lonely Hearts, Dorchester Publishing Group (1998), ISBN 9780505522566, page 303:
 * The dinger dinged. Time was again. And the omelet was done.
 * 2007 — Herb Heiman, Running on Dreams, Autism Asperger Publishing Co. (2007), ISBN 9781931282284, page 115:
 * The dinger went off and Crystal took the bowl out of the microwave.
 * 2010 — Jean Amata, Apocalypse of the Soul: Facing the End of Your Days and Maybe the End of the World, AuthorHouse (2010), ISBN 9781449064440, page 37:
 * I was nuking some hot tea and the dinger went off about the time my finger stopped on the channel changer.
 * 2011 — Kate St. James, A Little Wild, Samhain Publishing (2011), ISBN 9781609286248, page 93:
 * "It's just the dinger telling me the stove is hot enough for my cookies."
 * 2011 — Leah Vale, The Cowboy, Harlequin (2011), ISBN 9781459216358, unnumbered page:
 * Thankfully, she hung back and stayed quiet while he smacked the dinger to let Mabel know she was needed.

Noun: "(baseball) a home run"

 * 1989 — John Holway, "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.
 * 1997 — Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball, University of Nebraska Press (2003), ISBN 0803266391, page 264:
 * 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.
 * 2008 — Mike Stone & Art Regner, The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists, Running Press (2008), ISBN 9780762433544, page 209:
 * 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.

Noun: "(North America, slang) penis"

 * 1968 — Akiyuki Nosaka, The Pornographers, Knopf (1968), page 304:
 * But anyway, there was the boss's dinger pushing right up out of his shorts.
 * 1990 — Dorothy Garlock, Nightrose, Warner Books (1990), ISBN 9780759522985, unnumbered pages:
 * Nan tucked her hand in the crook of his arm and smiled sweetly, all the time thinking what fun it would be to kick his dinger, that is, if she could find it beneath his doughy belly.
 * 1993 — Cathy Griggers, "Lesbian Bodies in the Age of (Post)mechanical Reproduction", in Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (ed. Michael Warner), University of Minnesota Press (2004), ISBN 0816623333, page 182:
 * In other words, if working-class and middle-class urban lesbians and suburban dykes can't afford health care and don't yet have real national political representation, they can nonetheless buy a ten-inch "dinger" and a matching harness, and they can, with no guarantees, busy themselves at the task of appropriating for lesbian identities the signs of masculine power.
 * 1994 — Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm, University Press of Colorado (1994), ISBN 9780553565409, page 131:
 * "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."
 * 1994 — Terry Kay, Shadow Song, Washington Square Press (1995), ISBN 9780671892609, page 96:
 * "Her choice," Lila said. "It's her turn-on. Give her a couple of bottles and she tries to tear his dinger off."
 * 1999 — Lynda Barry, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Simon & Schuster (1997), ISBN 0743212177, page 5:
 * In the garbage ravine there is a nude man who crouches among the trash piles and his name is Old Red and he has very yellow skin like freezer-burned chicken and his thing in life is to suddenly run out and do a two-second display of his dinger and then run back in.
 * 2002 — Ray Fraser, Flight of the Monarch: A Collection of Mystical Journeys, Writers Press Club (2002), ISBN 0595220029, page 205:
 * No, what I want is a permanent fix. Something that will let him know how bad it feels and never allow him to cheat again."
 * "You could cut off his dinger."
 * 2009 — Donald Harrington, Enduring, Toby Press (2009), ISBN 9781592642564, page 86:
 * She again felt the need to match his maneuvers, so she reached down for his dinger,
 * 2009 — Norm Ledgin & Bethine Louise, Sour Notes, AuthorHouse (2009), ISBN 9781438995311, page 13:
 * "Henry's boy followed wherever his dinger pointed. Regular playboy. Knocked up girls left and right. For all I know, he may still be populating New Mexico."
 * 2009 — Alan Wieder, Year of the Cock: The Remarkable True Account of a Married Man Who Left His Wife and Paid the Price, Grand Central Publishing (2009), ISBN 9780446550802, unnumbered page:
 * Celebrity penis lore was not totally unfamiliar to me when I happened upon the site. I'd of course already gotten intimately familiar with Fred Durst's dinger.
 * 2010 —Nancé J. Mancuso, Temporary Amnesia, RoseDog Books (2010), ISBN 9781434992062, page 174:
 * I remember your mom used to call a man's pecker his 'dinger'.
 * 2011 — Barbara Barbato, The Stoop and Other Short Stories and Assorted Poetry, iUniverse (2011), ISBN 9781462048861, page 179:
 * "Mom, how did they know he's going to be a boy?"
 * "Because the doctor took a picture of him while he was in Krissy [sic] tummy."
 * "But how did they know it was a boy?"
 * "Because they saw his dinger."

Noun: "(Australian slang) the buttocks, the anus"

 * 1955 — Norman Bartlett, Island Victory, Angus and Robertson (1955), page 6:
 * "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."
 * 1979 — Derek Maitland, Breaking Out, Allen Lane (1979), page 63:
 * And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
 * 1988 — Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary, University of Queensland Press (1988), ISBN 9780702221583, page 109:
 * "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"

Noun: "(Australian slang) a catapult, a shanghai"

 * 2010 — Gordon Briscoe, Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family, Anu E Press (2010), ISBN 9781921666209, page 59:
 * 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.