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bing

Pronunciation: /bɪŋ/

The English word “bing” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Solitary confinement.
  2. A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
  3. The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
  4. A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore.
  5. The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
  6. The sound made by a bounce.
  7. A bounce.

verb

  1. To go; walk; come; run.
  2. To bounce.

interjection

  1. The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface.
  2. The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck.

Etymology

From Middle English bing, binge, benge (also as Middle English byngger, bengere (“grain bin, hopper”)), from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.

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