Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blinger n.

[SE blink or echoic bling, used for something that hits one with a sudden thump]

(US) the extreme example of a type or situation.

[US]Reader’s Digest Dec. 18/1: 241 [people] caught one or more colds [...] One hundred seventy-nine of them developed real blingers going through to the phase of secondary infection [DARE].
[US]Wentworth & Flexner DAS.