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zinger
noun- the punchline of a joke; the last word US
- “Ah!” said Polly. “Here comes the zinger.” “Not, not quite yet,” said Ira. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 111, 1964
- And he threw in a zinger. He tells me he don’t like the guys I’m associatin’ with. — Martin Gosch, The Last Testament of Lucky Testament, p. 53, 1975
- “Except family,” Carmody says, like he’s handing me the fatal zinger. — Robert Campbell, Nibbled to Death by Ducks, p. 98, 1989
- an arranged ending to a competition US
- And finally a fix–or zinger, as it was called in those days–was in with the Commission as well[.] — Terry Southern, The Magic Christian, p. 60, 1959
- a surprise, an awkward or unexpected turn of events US, 1973
- Of course, he has a couple of zingers in there which we’ll have to work around. — Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, p. 651, 1990
- an exceptionally good example of something UK, 1955
- I’m gonna crack off a zinger this afternoon. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, pp. 58–59, 1970
- a very attractive woman US
- A smasheroo she was–a real zinger. — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 8, 1959
- — Tom Hibbert, Rockspeak!, p. 176, 1983
- an amphetamine tablet US
- — Peter Johnson, Dictionary of Street Alcohol and Drug Terms, p. 208, 1993
- a hot pepper US
- — Maledicta, p. 24, 1996: “Domino’s pizza jargon”
- a hard stare that is intended to impart bad luck on the recipient US
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 293, 1979
- a surface wound US
- I got one little zinger up my back, nothing serious, just a grazing wound[.] — Harold Moore, We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young, p. 245, 1992
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