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dinger

dinger

3 8.3
A baseball hit that goes over the fence to score
  • noun
  • /ˈdɪŋər/
  • Slang
translation icon : jonrón
  • Peralta's second dinger, a laser beam neatly caught by the Tigers' bullpen catcher.
  • hit a dinger

Examples

  • If you told me he could finish the year with 25 dingers, almost to any point, including recently, I'd have laughed.

    Blog text (24)

  • 20-25 dingers by May's end do make an impression.

    Blog text (27)

  • And with that absolute dinger to center field, Captain Clutch had struck again.

  • Well, let's lose these ties and hit some dingers.

    That's My Boy (2012)

  • And Crash, who kept hitting dingers, was approaching the minor league record, though I told nobody.

    Bull Durham (1988)

  • No reason he doesn't hit 15 dingers next year.

    Blog text (33)

  • Snider belts first Bucco dinger and continues hot bat.

    Blog text (4)

  • At home, the Giants hit 31 regular-season dingers.

    Blog text (27)

  • There were two outs in the bottom of the first in Atlanta, and Garza had already allowed four runs, thanks to a pair of dingers.

    Blog text (11)

  • The crowd erupted when he hit a dinger that cleared the outfield fence.

Synonyms

home run
vsdinger
169 2.3

A hit that lets the batter run all the bases and score a run

is an informal slang expression rather than the neutral standard name
homer
vsdinger
  • Informal
68 5.3

A hit that lets the batter run all the bases and score

is considered slang rather than merely informal speech

How Many Bases

dinger
  • Slang
3 8.3
triple
14 5.5
double
  • Jargon
32 3.5
single
  • Jargon
85 4.2

Surface Forms

dinger singular
dingers plural

Morphology

dinger = ding (opaque) = ding + er

Although morphologically ding + -er, the specialised baseball meaning 'home run' is slang and not predictable from the base for an average learner.

Etymology

Dinger in baseball is a slang form of ding + -er, so think of the loud 'ding' when the bat hits the ball. A dinger is therefore a big hit that stands out — a home run.