dinger

noun

ding·​er ˈdiŋ-ər 

plural dingers

baseball, informal

: home run sense 1

Only the Royals, Astros and Cubs have given up more dingers than the Angels.

—Stephen Cannella

Ramirez had driven in 72 runs and had scored himself 49 times, while smacking 16 dingers …

—David Sabino

Examples of dinger in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Its global audience has a natural interest in baseball and everyone digs dingers. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026

Schwarber’s plate discipline nets him some of those home runs, but that plate discipline is fairly irrelevant in an event where the pitcher is basically lobbing the ball and hoping for a dinger. — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 13 July 2026

Beck wasn’t the only Yankee to serve up a dinger on Saturday, as Trevor Larnach took Tim Hill deep for a solo shot in the fourth inning. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026

No player free from credible suspicions of performance-enhancing-drug use has ever hit more dingers in a single season. — Sean Gregory, Time, 9 June 2026

Word History

Etymology

perhaps from ding to strike + -er entry 2

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dinger

• bringer
• clinger
• inger
• ringer
• slinger
• springer
• stinger
• stringer
• winger
• wringer