jingle

plural jingles · alternative gingle

1. The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.

   He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.

2. entertainmentA small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.

   Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.

3. advertisingA memorable short song or verse, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, often used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.

   That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.

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   Soon people were reading the Burma-Shave jingles all over the Midwest.

   1964, Hannah Campbell, Why did they name it…?, Fleet Pub. Corp, page 161

   The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

   2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2012

4. A carriage drawn by horses.

   They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.

   1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, page 85

5. slangA brief telephone call.

   Give me a jingle when you find out something.

   Synonyms: bell, ring, tinkle

6. A jingle shell.
7. slanguncountableCoin money.

   If all you folks who donate your hard-earned jingle to PETA aren't convinced of your ill-advised ways yet, you should probably check this out.

   2004, “P.E.T.A.”, in Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2, episode 1

8. PhilippinesslangPee, urine.

present singular third person jingles · participle present jingling · participle past jingled · past jingled · alternative gingle

1. intransitiveTo make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.

   The beads jingled as she walked.

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   I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear ſpurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderſtanding.

   1632, Iames Shirley [i.e., James Shirley], Changes: Or, Love in a Maze. A Comedie, […], London: […] G. P. for William Cooke, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 3

   He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[IV]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 54

2. transitiveTo cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.

   She jingled the beads as she walked.

3. datedintransitiveTo rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.

   jingling street ballads

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

4. PhilippinescolloquialTo pee, to urinate.

alternative Ching-le

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.

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   Kao Wen-huan, a member of the Chinglo county CCP core group and commanding general of the Chinglo county revolutionary rebellion general command (former magistrate of Chinglo country), also highly praised representatives of mass organizations he had worked with in the revolutionary "three-way alliance" provisional organ of power for their class awareness and their indomitable revolutionary spirit.

   [1967 April 14 [1967 April 7], “SHANSI CADRES RELATE EXPERIENCES TO NCNA”, in Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 73, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page DDD 8

   According to a survey of 19 villages in Jingle County, Shanxi Province, 880 of the 5,758 peasant households sold land, as a result of which 167 old middle-peasant households declined in status to poor peasants, similar to the way the status of 471 new middle-peasant households which had just acquired land declined during the land reform.

   Economic Changes in Rural China

   1985, Wang Huimin, transl., edited by Luo Hanxian (罗涵先), 中国农村的经济变革 [Economic Changes in Rural China] (China Studies Series), Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 52