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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
  • The show will serve as a platform for countless lunatics within the InfoWars universe and a platform for larger announcements about the company’s fictional exploits.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Rabin was killed [in 1995], that was a last straw —seeing an extremist right-wing lunatic in Israel kill Rabin and kill the dreams of peace.
    — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of lunatic
Verb
  • Temperatures are gong to be in the low-to-mid 90s across the region, with peak heat indices ranging from 100 to 107 degrees.
    — Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026
  • Prices at the auction were gong up and up.
    — USA TODAY, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Definition of gong
Noun
  • But Thomas and Erika are no fools, coolly telling off smiling Hitler sympathizers during a tony reception.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Atlanta Dream might now be the hottest ticket in town and State Farm Arena would be fools not to host them in Game 6.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of fool
Verb
  • There’s nothing off limits here, nothing too garish to clash with saxophone and strings.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Sonko, who was fired as premier in May, has clashed with his successor over how to manage the country’s debt.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of clash
Noun
  • In short, the encyclopedia is being destroyed by its biggest beneficiaries, like a golden goose slaughtered for slop-pâté.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Ternus’ interaction with IShowSpeed is clearly designed to capture this (and, of course, to goose preorder numbers among the influencer’s young and massive audience).
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of goose
Verb
  • Just when things seemed too contentious and/or boring to a late-night viewer, Stewart knew when to jingle the keys in our face.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of jingle
Noun
  • The nuts carry melatonin, tryptophan, magnesium, zinc and vitamin B6, which all play a role in how the body winds down.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Pipe on the caramel cream cheese frosting and top the cake with nuts and blackberries.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 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
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