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noun

ˈdiŋ-ˌdȯŋ How to pronounce ding-dong (audio)
Definition of ding-dongnext
as in lunatic
a person who lacks good sense or judgment there's always one ding-dong in the tour group who wanders off and gets lost

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ding-dong

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verb

as in to gong

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Recent Examples of ding-dong
Noun
Earlier this year, an 11-year-old boy in Houston was shot and killed while playing the seemingly harmless prank of ding-dong-ditch. — Stephanie Murray, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025 In their search for a late-night ding-dong ditcher, a California homeowner discovered a bear pulling a prank. — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025 In 2020, three 16-year-olds were killed when a man rammed his car into their vehicle in retaliation for pulling a ding-dong-ditch prank on him. — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025 In California, a 45-year-old man who ran down a group of ding-dong ditch pranksters, killing three teenagers, was sentenced in 2023 to life in prison. — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ding-dong
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ding-dong
  1. lunatic
  2. gong
  3. fool
  4. clash
  5. goose
  6. jingle
  7. nut
  8. ding
Noun
  • As a Spurs fan, I was particularly invested in Campbell in an England shirt and recall charging around the living room like a lunatic before the reality that it had been chalked off hit home.
    — The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 18 June 2026
  • The lunatics are running the asylum.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
Definition of lunatic
Verb
  • Prices at the auction were gong up and up.
    — USA TODAY, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Definition of gong
Noun
  • Don’t let the thin sole fool you though, the structure is still quite supportive and keeps your feet cushioned.
    — Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
  • Being a gent or a supplicant wasn’t the same as being a fool, though.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Definition of fool
Verb
  • Don’t attempt to achieve the impossible as the sun and Saturn clash.
    — USA TODAY, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • Both are familiar foes, clashing on several occasions when playing for their club teams in the Premier League.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of clash
Noun
  • Unlike caviar, though, Chinese foie gras will also face headwinds in America as animal-rights activists continue fighting to get the duck and goose liver banned.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 13 July 2026
  • The scribe carefully inscribed each line with a quill made from a goose feather, while their other hand wielded an erasing knife used to sharpen the quill and scrape away any mistakes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
Definition of goose
Verb
  • On the walls, a few pots hang from a copper rod, a dinner bell waits to be jingled, and an ancient clock keeps time.
    — Elazar Sontag, Washington Post, 2 July 2026
  • The Household Cavalry, on dark horses and with brightly shining breastplates, trotted past, jingling like a cutlery drawer.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Definition of jingle
Noun
  • Protein powder, Greek yogurt, berries, spinach and nut butter.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 15, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
  • The robot’s success rate at a self-tapping nut loading station has reached 98 percent, reducing the gap with human workers’ qualification rate to just one percentage point.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
Definition of nut
Verb
  • The report also dings the Harris campaign for failing to distance the candidate from Biden, in light of his unpopularity at the time.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 21 May 2026
  • Future transshipment rules, for instance, could ding individual components that are made in one country—China, again, is a good bet—and then integrated into a product without enough of a transformation in another before winding up in the United States.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
Definition of ding

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“Ding-dong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ding-dong. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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