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One is dinged when one is contacted by the NHS Covid Track-and-Trace app and told to self-isolate following exposure to someone with Covid. ‘Ding’ is onomatopoeic after the sound of a phone notification. Commonly ‘be / get dinged’.
I got dinged by Track and Trace, but I’ve got no idea how.
ding by xoxo_c4thy.blo0m_xoxo June 28, 2021
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Commonly ‘be/get dinged /dɪŋd/. One is dinged when one is contacted by the NHS Track-and-Trace app and told to self-isolate following possible exposure to someone with Covid. ‘Ding’ is onomatopoeic after the sound of a smartphone notification.

(This usage is observed in Cambridge, UK, where this entry is written - for the record.)
I got dinged by the app and I’ve no idea why.
ding by xoxo_c4thy.blo0m_xoxo June 28, 2021
making some amongy music
I show my champion underwear to my girlfriend, and the logo I flipped it and I said "hey babe, when the underwear sus, HAHA, ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding"
ding by E for Affort July 12, 2021
“Liking the same gender” a word used for closeted gays
Manuel: That guy is ding 💅
Tristan: That “ding💅” guy is my boyfriend Jose
*walk away in slow motion and play cool music*
Ding by Ur mothers heart June 2, 2022
Ding is a sound used the describe Jasandeep. You know who you are
Ding by Jasanding Siding January 7, 2023
(n) The cousin of the comedic rimshot. To acknowledge the on-the-spot approach when a person gives a witty rebuttal, comment, insult, etc. in front of a group, in the precise moment which results in a desk bell "ding", just the word itself, or a ding emoji in texts. It is one of the last bastions of honest audience approval and the highest praise for an act of true comedic performance, pure circumstance, and timing, deemed funny to the comedy gods.
Jim (aged 30- telling his group 30-year-old friends about his dating life): ...So after our fourth date, me and Suzie saw a movie, I drove her home, and we made out for the first time.

Nick: Yeah, I remember when I was 14, too. Did you at least give her the popcorn trick?

Group: Oh! That's a ding! (bangs on the desk bell) DING!
Ding by Studs Lonigan III January 4, 2025