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Zing   /zɪŋ/   Listen
Zing

noun
1.
A brief high-pitched buzzing or humming sound.
2.
The activeness of an energetic personality.  Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzaz, pizzazz.






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"Zing" Quotes from Famous Books



... and began to Ritz themselves. Every time Madam walked into one of those places marked "English Spoken while you Wait"—Zing! The Letter of Credit resembled a piece of Apple Pie just after the willing Farm Hand has taken a Hack ...
— Knocking the Neighbors • George Ade

... "Z-z-z-zing!" says I, starin' after him. Cute little strips of Treasury kale, them with the C's in the corners, aren't ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford

... tiger, and what not. Menace to Society and all that sort of thing. No holding him. For some unexplained reason the generous blood of the Belphers boiled over, and then—zing. They jerked him off to Vine Street. Like the poem, don't you know. 'And poor old Percy walked between with gyves upon his wrists.' And this morning, bright and early, the beak parted him from ten quid. You know, Maud, old thing, our duty stares us ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... Guards whom he led on to victory in their recent burlesque engagement, has composed a polka or waltz which bears the name of "Zingit," and which might bear on the wrapper, "If you can't play it, or dance it, Zing it." ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 • Various

... and what not. Menace to Society and all that sort of thing. No holding him. For some unexplained reason the generous blood of the Belphers boiled over, and then—zing. They jerked him off to Vine Street. Like the poem, don't you know. 'And poor old Percy walked between with gyves upon his wrists.' And this morning, bright and early, the beak parted him from ten quid. You know, Maud, old thing, our duty stares us plainly ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse



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