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  • noun Plural form of dingus.

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Examples

  • So many Americans have gleefully addicted themselves to thrallmart's cheap commodities; what happens when the semi tractor trailers no longer disgorge their contents of plastic dinguses created in sweatshops abroad?

    He Said Wal-Mart, She Said Target 2009

  • So many Americans have gleefully addicted themselves to thrallmart's cheap commodities; what happens when the semi tractor trailers no longer disgorge their contents of plastic dinguses created in sweatshops abroad?

    He Said Wal-Mart, She Said Target 2009

  • Neat little dinguses though . . .got a site for them in Melbourne.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » WW question from Jose. 2009

  • He hunted through the medicine-cabinet for a packet of new razor-blades (reflecting, as invariably, “Be cheaper to buy one of these dinguses and strop your own blades,”) and when he discovered the packet, behind the round box of bicarbonate of soda, he thought ill of his wife for putting it there and very well of himself for not saying “Damn.”

    Babbit 2004

  • He wasn't wearing colored glasses or using one of those two-picture stereo dinguses; it was just the computer screen.

    Demons Don't Dream Anthony, Piers 1993

  • They're going to make those dinguses the Indians use trailing after their horses -- a pole fastened to either side of the animal, and the ends dragging on the ground.

    The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Willard F. Baker

  • He hunted through the medicine-cabinet for a packet of new razor-blades (reflecting, as invariably, “Be cheaper to buy one of these dinguses and strop your own blades, ”) and when he discovered the packet, behind the round box of bicarbonate of soda, he thought ill of his wife for putting it there and very well of himself for not saying “Damn.

    Chapter 1 1922

  • He hunted through the medicine-cabinet for a packet of new razor-blades (reflecting, as invariably, ` ` Be cheaper to buy one of these dinguses and strop your own blades, '') and when he discovered the packet, behind the round box of bicarbonate of soda, he thought ill of his wife for putting it there and very well of himself for not saying ` ` Damn. ''

    Babbitt 1922

  • (reflecting, as invariably, "Be cheaper to buy one of these dinguses and strop your own blades,") and when he discovered the packet, behind the round box of bicarbonate of soda, he thought ill of his wife for putting it there and very well of himself for not saying "Damn."

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Every one of them who goes up the mountain is one less Taglian I have to worry about getting behind me and maybe wrapping one of those silk dinguses around my neck. "

    She Is The Darkness Cook, Glen 1997

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