wingding

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1. slangA fit or spasm.

   ‘She threw a wingding. Looked like a mild epileptic fit to me.’

   1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 243

2. slangA party.

   Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground

   1982, Donald Fagen, “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly

plural wingdings

1. computingA dingbat (ornamental typographical symbol), especially one from the Wingdings font.

   Don't know a wingding from a ring-a-ding-ding? Check out one of the For Dummies books on Microsoft Office.

   2011, Suzanne Gilad, Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies, page 179

   1 more example

   Instead of going through the menu selections needed to insert a special symbol like a Wingding, you can rely on AutoCorrect to substitute the symbol for the text you type […]

   2004, Mary Millhollon, Katherine Murray, Microsoft Office Word 2003 Inside Out, page 202

plural Wingdings

1. trademarkcomputingA glyph from a Wingdings font.