bing (plural bings)
(slang) Prison solitary confinement, a term used by inmates.
(mostly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry. Can also refer to the waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
(British) (mostly Scotland) A heap or pile.
bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)
(dated slang or dialectal) To go; walk; come; run
Onomatopoeia of a bouncing sound.
bing
(onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface
bing (plural bings)
The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia
A sound made by a bounce
A bounce
bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)
Making the sound of a bounce
To bounce
• GBNI, Gbin
Bing
A surname of Old English origin and unknown meaning.
A male given name from surnames.
A diminutive of the male given names Bingley, Bingham (cf. also Bing Crosby).
Brand name.
Bing
(Internet) A search engine introduced by Microsoft in 2009.
• GBNI, Gbin
Source: Wiktionary
Bing, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. bingr, Sw. binge, G. beige, beuge. Cf. Prov. E. bink bench, and bench coal the uppermost stratum of coal.]
Definition: A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood. "Potato bings." Burns. "A bing of corn." Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
