dinger

La Russa called the dinger a “big mistake,” said Mercedes was “clueless,” joked that he’d spank Mercedes if the athlete wasn’t so big and strong, and insisted such a disrespectful home run wouldn’t come off Mercedes’s bat again.

We tried to keep up with them, but that little plane is a hum-dinger for speed and it soon outstripped us.

"Why, she's a hum-dinger," returned Baptiste more curiously.

Ring-a-dinger, ring-a-dinger went the dinner bell all unheeded.

That night they took in a show which was a "hum dinger," and should have endured a life-time.

"I s'pose we could swing that dinger back and forth if we couldn't do nothin' else," Gizzard admitted resignedly.