dingus

1. slang One who is stupid or foolish. Geez, he keeps pulling on a door that's clearly marked "push"—what a dingus. Did you hear that guy's ridiculous question? Geez, what a dinghead. You dinghead. I can't believe you put a pizza in the oven for 30 minutes without first turning it on.

2. slang A name for a gadget or thing whose actual name has, typically, been forgotten. Hand me that dingus or whatever it's called, will you? Hand me that dingus or whatever it's called, will you? A: "You need to screw in a little dingus to keep those pieces together." B: "Oh, a 'dingbat,' huh? And where am I supposed to find that?"

3. vulgar slang A penis. I don't want to see your dingus—pull up your pants! They said there's a guy going around flashing his dingus to people in Central Park.

dingus

1. n. a thing or gadget. I have a little dingus that helps me clean venetian blinds.

2. and dingy n. the penis; the male thing. (Usually objectionable.) Jimmy, shake your dingus and put it away!

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References in periodicals archive

[24.] Klauer SG, Dingus TA, Neale VL, Sudweeks J, Ramsey DJ.

ANALYSIS OF BUS DRIVERS REACTION TO SIMULATED TRAFFIC COLLISION SITUATIONS--EYE-TRACKING STUDIES

Dingus and the research team analyzed video footage of 3,454 drivers, 905 crashes and 19,732 control periods of "normal driving" for instances of cognitive distraction.

Really? Using Hands-Free Devices While Driving Not So Risky?

The present study adds to the existing literature, or "tends" to the garden of scholarship on BWEs (Dixson & Dingus, 2008), by drawing attention to Black women's perceptions of their professional positionality within an educational climate heavily influenced by deracialized conceptions of teacher quality.

The Paradox of Pedagogical Excellence Among Exemplary Black Women Educators

Agnihotri R, Dingus R, Hu MY, Krush MT (2016) Social media: Influencing customer satisfaction in B2B sales.

AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION ON E-RETAILER AGILITY, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, COMMITMENT AND LOYALTY

Shifting Views & Changing Places: The Photographs of Rick Dingus

The drivers need to sleep 6.28h per night according to the HOS regulations in the United States (Hanowski, Hickman, Fumero, Olson, and Dingus, 2007).

Psychological Well-being and Fatigue Impact on Aberrant Driving Behaviors in Oil and Gas Sector of Malaysia

Studies indicate that 80% of collisions and 65% of near crashes involve some form of driver inattention (Dingus et al., 2006; Klauer et al., 2006).

Selective attention and error proneness while driving: research using a conjunctive visual search task/Atencion selectiva y propension al error en la conduccion: estudio mediante una tarea de busqueda visual conjunta/Atencao seletiva e propensao ao erro na conducao: estudo mediante uma tarefa de busca visual conjunta

The map is "revealing new information about nature's particle accelerators," Brenda Dingus, a leader of the HAWC collaboration, said April 18.

Map charts previously unknown gamma-ray sources

Diverse are putting on live music from midday - The Darling Buds, Mick Squalor (Dingus Khan/ Superglu) and Clarity.

Record Store Day 2016 - how Wales is celebrating the event; It's the ninth year of celebrating independent record shops across the UK... and Kathryn Williams finds out what's going on at our favourite emporiums

Tiger had the kind of solid gold excuse most draftees would have paid a fortune for: because what happens on the battlefield when this soldier has no mouthwash to disinfect that dingus? What happens if he loses or breaks it, and that hole in his head starts to fester?

Tyger, Tyger

Dixson & Dingus, 2008; Gordon, 1985; Thompson, 1998).

"I worry about my community": African American women utilizing communal notions of citizenship in the social studies classroom

"Health insurance and health savings accounts can be complex and difficult to navigate, but the HealthEquity marketing team has taken this dry and complicated subject matter and given it a fun and approachable personality The team has done so by creating interesting, out-of-the-box ways to communicate benefits information," says Cody Dingus, vice president of marketing for HealthEquity.

The SAMY awards: celebrating Utah's top sales and marketing executives

2005; Redelmeier and Tibshirani 1997), or performing secondary tasks that require 1-2 eye glances and/or 1-2 button presses, which is associated with a 40% increase in risk (Dingus et al.

High ambient temperatures and risk of motor vehicle crashes in Catalonia, Spain (2000-2011): a time-series analysis

The highlight of John's weekend was seeing the band Dingus Kahn, who possibly provided the image of the weekend.

Music lovers flock to city for successful Swn festival