wingdinger

wingdinger

English

Etymology

From wingding +‎ -er.

Noun

wingdinger (plural wingdingers)

  1. (US, slang) A particularly energetic and boisterous event.
    • 1961, Alan Wagner, Prima Donnas and Other Wild Beasts‎[1], Larchmont, N.Y.: Argonaut Books, page 70:
      The recent Tebaldi-Callas fracas was largely fluff compared with some of the wingdingers that have happened in the past, but it was enough fun to command headline space, and stories in Time.
    • 2015, Tina Leonard, The Cowboy SEAL's Triplets‎[2], Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 48:
      One didn't sign up to be a fall guy in Bridesmaids Creek willy-nilly. This crew could think up some wingdingers.
    • 2018, Ben Fountain, Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country That Voted for Him‎[3], Edinburgh: Canongate, →ISBN, page 219:
      The crowd is bonkers. They're getting just what they came for, a massive wingdinger of an InfoWars smackdown. Alex Jones is undefeated at one-on-none.

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