wingdinger

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noun

A particularly energetic and boisterous event.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounwingdinger (plural wingdingers)

plural wingdingers

  1. USslangA particularly energetic and boisterous event.

    One didn't sign up to be a fall guy in Bridesmaids Creek willy-nilly. This crew could think up some wingdingers.

    2015, Tina Leonard, The Cowboy SEAL's Triplets, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 48
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    The recent Tebaldi-Callas fracas was largely fluff compared with some of the wingdingers that have happened in the past, but it was enough fun to command headline space, and stories in Time.

    1961, Alan Wagner, Prima Donnas and Other Wild Beasts, Larchmont, N.Y.: Argonaut Books, page 70

    The crowd is bonkers. They're getting just what they came for, a massive wingdinger of an InfoWars smackdown. Alex Jones is undefeated at one-on-none.

    2018, Ben Fountain, Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country That Voted for Him, Edinburgh: Canongate, →ISBN, page 219

Origin

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APA

wingdinger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wingdinger

MLA

“wingdinger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wingdinger. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wingdinger,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wingdinger.

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