bing

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/bɪŋ/

Definition of bing

16 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article)Solitary confinement.
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noun

  1. (countable, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article)Solitary confinement.
  2. (Scotland, countable, uncountable)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. (Scotland, countable, uncountable)The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
  4. (British, Scotland, countable, uncountable)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. (dated, dialectal, slang)To go; walk; come; run.
  2. To bounce.
  3. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Bing search engine.
    “Tess exited YouTube, Binged Richard Widmark, and found what she expected, given the power of that brief clip.”
    “He must have Googled or Binged me and found out about one of Phil Logan’s early publicity stunts where he had me suited up like a Los Angeles Dodger so his photographer could take a picture of me holding a baseball bat.”
    “I Googled the company (then Binged it just to be sure), searched their job listings online, and tried to remember what job I actually applied for that generated this response.”
    “So here she sat, having Googled and Binged and called former associates to try to get a bead on the education climate today.”
    “He Googled, Binged, and Yahooed sharks, shark life, shark types, shark history, shark food, and anything else shark-related.”

intj

  1. (onomatopoeic)The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface.
  2. (onomatopoeic)The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck.
    “Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010, Jim Rankin Bing! Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes the captain will turn off the fasten seatbelt sign, but for your own safety we recommend you stay seated and with your seatbelt securely fastened at all times.”

name

  1. A surname from Old English of Old English origin and unknown meaning.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A diminutive of the male given names Bingley or Bingham (see also Bing Crosby).
  4. (Internet)A search engine introduced by Microsoft in 2009.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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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