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This was literally just the drum beat and this one synth thing, ding-ding-ding-ding, which is pretty much what the song is anyway.

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  1. intransitive verb To ring; clang.
  2. intransitive verb To speak persistently and repetitiously.
  3. transitive verb To cause to clang, as by striking.
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  • He presented her with the ring at their wed­ding, a sentimental token, I imagine. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • A jeweled ring on his right hand tapped the bars-- ding, ding, ding --like bells. —  Aeon Five
  • This was literally just the drum beat and this one synth thing, ding-ding-ding-ding, which is pretty much what the song is anyway. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • I lost out to Vermeulen but managed to hold the other two off in what could be described as a ding-dong battle. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • "I've been called a ding-bat many times in my life and never got a free trip to Hollywood," she said. —  Waynesboro Record Herald Homepage RSS
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  1. Partly imitative and partly alteration of din.
  2. From ding, to strike, beat on, pound (from Middle English dingen; akin to Old Norse dengja) and from ding1.

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  1. from Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb, preterit dang, dong, past participle dungen), strike, throw, beat; not in Anglo-Saxon, the alleged *dencgan being unauthenticated; prob. of Scandinavian origin: Icelandic dengja, hammer, = Swedish dänga = Danish dænge, bang, beat (weak verbs).
  2. Imitative; cf. ding-dong and ring.
 

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