noun General Slang

dinger

· noun · mle

A car — often a stolen or burner one.

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Definitions

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A stolen or unregistered car, kept cheap and disposable — no tax, no insurance, no paper trail to you. Used for joyrides and for moving on jobs where you don't want your own plates clocked.

“They pulled up in a dinger and ghosted before the feds came.”
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Any old banger or cheap runaround. The drift away from the strict criminal sense — a dinger can now just mean a knackered car you wouldn't cry over.

“I'm not taking my motor, I'll bring the dinger.”
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dinger In A Sentence

They pulled up in a dinger and ghosted before the feds came.
I'm not taking my motor, I'll bring the dinger.

Origin & Usage

MLE / UK drill; the dual meaning has been argued in actual UK court cases where context decides whether 'dinger' implies criminality.

Variants dinga
Tags #mle#london#british#crime#cars

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