In baseball, a home run; anything that is remarkable or impressive.
From 'ding,' possibly related to the sound of a bat hitting a ball. Used in American baseball slang since the early 1900s.
Dinger is baseball poetry—it started as onomatopoeia for the sound of impact and evolved into one of the sport's most colorful terms, showing how sports create their own vibrant vocabulary.
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