ing-bing

plural ing-bings

1. datedslangA fit or tantrum.

   ‘Merle's at my apartment,’ I said. ‘She threw an ing-bing.’

   1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 238

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   'What gets into you, Ned?' he complained. 'You go along fine for just so long and then for no reason at all you throw an ing-bing. I'll be a dirty so-and-so if I can make you out!'

   1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, Dell Publishing, published 1966, page 13

   ‘He threw an ing-bing and I had to slug him,’ I explained to nobody in particular and started to dust myself down.

   1949, James Hadley Chase, You Never Know with Women