dingus

dingus

1. One who is stupid or foolish. Geez, he keeps pulling on a door that's clearly marked "push"—what a dingus.
2. 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?
3. vulgar slang A penis. I don't want to see your dingus—pull up your pants!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • dingy
  • dingbat
  • dinghead
  • dingleberry
  • doofus
  • blockhead
  • dimwit
  • dipwad
  • ding-a-ling
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
(4.) Dingus, T., Klauer, S., Neale, V., Petersen, A., et al., "The 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study: Phase II - Results of the 100-Car Field Experiment," Report No.
Field Study of Heavy Vehicle Crash Avoidance System Performance
Shifting Views & Changing Places: The Photographs of Rick Dingus
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