ding-dong

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Controlling the lights in your house via computer is a great way to freak out the neighborhood kids ding-dong-ditching (assuming you wire up a Halloween scream motion sensor, also).

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  1. noun The peal of a bell.
  2. noun Slang An empty-headed person; a fool.
  3. intransitive verb To ring; jingle.
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  • Obama-rama-ding-dong, the canidate voted most popular with the uneducated & misinformed. like Jonesy said on the show again today (I think it was today … lol), they pass the baton off. —  Infowars
  • The 31-year-old Kutcher had claimed he would "ding-dong-ditch" CNN founder Ted Turner if he won, and pledged to make good on his promise after winning.
  • JournalRhythm: "Now all that remains is a case of ding-dong-dutch to Mister Turner and to tell Larry King that ..." —  GMSV
  • Whoopty ding-dong More underhand slides to bore you with Delivers usual promise of jam tomorrow —  The Inquirer
  • Mr Klaus had a terrific ding-dong with some publicity hungry members of the European Parliament when they went to see him for the start of the Czech presidency. —  The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Imitative.

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  1. A reduplication of ding, in imitation of the sound of a bell. Cf. equivalent Swedish dingdang, dingelidang = Danish ding-dang.
 

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