jingle
IPA: dʒˈɪŋgʌɫ
noun
- The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- (music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.
- (broadcasting, advertising, music) A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.
- A carriage drawn by horses.
- (slang) A brief telephone call.
- A jingle shell.
- (slang, uncountable) Coin money.
- (Philippines, colloquial) Pee, urine.
- A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- (transitive) To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- (dated, intransitive) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
- (Philippines, colloquial) To pee, to urinate.
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Examples of "jingle" in Sentences
- Special thanks to Kosta Andreadis for our awesome title jingle!
- The old Toffifay candy commercial jingle is something that really offended me as a kid.
- From "The irresistible, singable, stick-in-your-mindable jingle is dead" (Boston Globe):
- This jingle is comedy gold, folks, especially the razzle-dazzle way the unknown little boy (possibly a girl) singer delivers it.
- One thing is for sure; it has nothing whatever to do with the mealy mouthed jingle from the Home Office called the Policing Pledge.
- Liberals should stop kidding themselves that some kind of brilliant silver-bullet new jingle is going to turn everything around and stay focused on doing the harder job of changing the underlying attitudes.
- Into his head had come a new mantra, a jingle from a commercial on TV when he was growing up, a child of baseball fields and macadam basketball courts with their bent and rusted hoops and the intense otherworldly green of a New York summer, a green so multivalent and assertive it was like a promise of life to come.
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