jingle

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At probably 130 beats per minute, I thought the jingle was as upbeat as they got.

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  1. intransitive verb To make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
  2. intransitive verb To have the catchy sound of a simple, repetitious rhyme or doggerel.
  3. transitive verb To cause to make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
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  • As for a jingle -- how about a few bars of Shanghai jazz? —  Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
  • At probably 130 beats per minute, I thought the jingle was as upbeat as they got. —  Buffalo Rising
  • However since I had to drag another copy of the jingle onto the "Jingle" track towards the end of the podcast (total play time of the jingle was about 2mins), that means that I had about an extra minute and a half of the jingle hanging past the 20min mark I wanted to end the podcast at. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • It is this continuous forcing of idea and expression which persists in virtually all Mr Kipling's verse except where the jingle is all that matters. —  Rudyard Kipling
  • He was in travail of another love-jingle, and his tantrums were odious. —  We Can't Have Everything
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  1. Middle English ginglen, of imitative origin.

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  1. Formerly also gingle; from Middle English gingelen, ginglen, freq. of jink, q.v., equivalent to chink, q.v. Cf. tink, tinkle, ring, German klingeln, jingle, etc.; imitative words.
  2. Formerly also gingle; from jingle, v.
 

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/ˈdʒɪŋgl/
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