"dinglehopper" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dinglehoppers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dinglehopper (plural dinglehoppers)
  1. (informal) Something that one does not readily recall the name of. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-dinglehopper-en-noun-3PEssPd2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dinglehopper (plural dinglehoppers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You press this, this... dinglehopper to get the motor started.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, The Little Mermaid, spoken by Ariel and Scuttle (Jodi Benson and Buddy Hackett):",
          "text": "Scuttle: Human stuff, huh? Hey, lemme see. (Picks up fork.) Look at this. Wow – this is special – this is very, very unusual.\n Ariel: What? What is it?\n Scuttle: It's a dinglehopper! Humans use these little babies to straighten their hair out. See, just a little twirl here and a yank there and voilà! You got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over!\n Ariel: A dinglehopper!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that one does not readily recall the name of."
      ],
      "id": "en-dinglehopper-en-noun-3PEssPd2",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Something that one does not readily recall the name of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dinglehopper"
}
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dinglehopper (plural dinglehoppers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English placeholder terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You press this, this... dinglehopper to get the motor started.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, The Little Mermaid, spoken by Ariel and Scuttle (Jodi Benson and Buddy Hackett):",
          "text": "Scuttle: Human stuff, huh? Hey, lemme see. (Picks up fork.) Look at this. Wow – this is special – this is very, very unusual.\n Ariel: What? What is it?\n Scuttle: It's a dinglehopper! Humans use these little babies to straighten their hair out. See, just a little twirl here and a yank there and voilà! You got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over!\n Ariel: A dinglehopper!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that one does not readily recall the name of."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Something that one does not readily recall the name of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dinglehopper"
}

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