chinger

A chinger is a telephone fraud device that mimics the frequency made by a pay telephone when money was dropped into it. Putting money in the coin slot caused a DTMF or Dual Tone Multi Frequency signal to be sent out to the central switching box which registered it and when enough money had been inserted into the phone would connect the call. The chinger could mimic that sound and thus produce the equivalent effect of dropping a quarter into the pay phone.

So basically, a chinger allowed the user to make unlimited free calls from certain pay phones. They could be made using a simple pocket electronic address book sold at Radio Shack, and replacing the chip inside to alter the output sound.

They were also known as "red boxes" but the name chinger probably referred to the chiming sound it made when mimicing a quarter drop.

Most modern pay phones no longer use the DTMF tones, rendering the chinger obsolete... but it was fun while it lasted!

Hey gimme that chinger I need to make a phone call.

by Jacaranda February 1, 2008

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chingalo

in mexico people use it to say
"fuck it!"

Chingalo!I quit you nasty cum slut

by the713queen July 11, 2005

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chinglish

Speaking both English and Chinese in one's sentences.

Example of a sentence in Chinglish:
"At K-mart, I buy -hen duo- clothes."

Notes:
"hen duo" means very many in Chinese. Also note the grammar error.

by Alex January 18, 2004

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A cringelord is a being of incredible power. They are given the ability to harness the usage of the cringe as much as they like. Cringelords (Joshua Baloney) usually look like a pizza with 2 many bubbles and pepperoni on it.

Cringelord 69, please spare me your cringe!

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