pling

plural plings

1. datedcomputingThe symbol ! (an exclamation mark).

   This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.

   1989, John Littler, John Maher, Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing

   3 more examples

   IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.

   1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet)

   Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.

   1994, Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines

   Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling-inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).

   1996, Tim Wiser, “Pling thing revisited”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet)

plural plings

1. A soft bell-like sound; ding.

present singular third person plings · participle present plinging · participle past plinged · past plinged

1. intransitiveTo produce a soft bell-like sound.

   The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.

   2019, Philip Gwynne Jones, The Venetian Masquerade