Dinged-up

[Wilson Gray]

Could be he had in mind "dinge" pronounced to rhyme with "hinge"
meaning "a black person." That is, he may have meant that the bus was
"pimped out."

-Wilson Gray

On 9/15/05, Bill Lemay <blemay0 at mchsi.com> wrote:
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> Heard on NPR this morning: A reporter described a bus as "dinged-up",
> pronounced to rhyme with "hinged" (forgive me, I don't know standard phonetic
> representation).  I wonder if it was a slip of the tongue, or if some people
> use <dinjed-up> to mean the same as <din-jee> (messy or dirty)?  I've only
> heard of "dinged-up", meaning to have many small dents.
>
> Bill Le May
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-Wilson Gray