Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(mainly UK juv.) dinner.

1905		E.M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread 47: ‘Din-din’s nearly ready,’ said Lilia.
1920		Wodehouse Summer Lightning 265: ‘Come along, Carmody. Din-dins.’ Hugo had sunk into a chair. ‘I don’t want any dinner,’ he said, dully.
1958		F. Norman Bang to Rights 113: If you get captured with one you’ll get a few days no din-din.
1967		M. Frayn Towards the End of Morning (2000) 34: I’d have cooked din-dins for both of us.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 62: dindin baby talk for dinner.
1982		A. Maupin Further Tales of the City (1984) 212: What’s for din-din?
1986		R.G. Barrett Godson 299: ‘Be a good boy and eat your din-dins’.
1998		P. McCabe Breakfast on Pluto 134: Brings you off to the restaurant for a great big yummy din-dins!
2000		J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 177: Danny’s got better things to worry about than where you two eat your din-dins.
2005		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 166: Some nagging female giving me hell for not coming home on time for my din dins.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 397: ‘We were having dindins at Kendrick Mews. Somewhat liquid dindins, has to be said’.