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wingding; wing-ding
noun- a party, a celebration US, 1949
- “She was at the wing-ding up the river tonight,” Grave Digger said thickly. — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 189, 1957
- There was one big whing-ding going on in Leo Stevens” room. — Helen Giblo, Footlights, Fistfights and Femmes, p. 119, 1957
- “Bring Miss Ford if you want to—she’s never seen a real wingding—but show up and be counted.” — Stephen Longstreet, The Flesh Peddlers, p. 69, 1962
- “Prove it, then, and come to Mrs. Madrigal’s wingding.” — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 347, 1978
- But the afterparty’s sure to be a wing-ding as it moves into your city. — Sheryl Crow, There Goes the Neighbourhood, 1998
- in motorcyle racing, a brief loss of control for which the rider compensates US
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 116, 1965
- a fit, especially one feigned by a drug addict; a person feigning such a fit US, 1927
- So he is sent to the rear, and we watch him go with hatred in our eyes. “If I ever throw a whingding like that, shoot me,” says Kerrigan. — Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, p. 15, 1949
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 823, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- “If I had known you could throw wingdings like that I could have been using you all along as a sideline to faith healing,” she said. — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 72, 1966
- That square chump is sure a whingding. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 217, 1969
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