dinger n.3
1. (US Und.) a till.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 23: chip [...] A cash-box; a till; a cash drawer without belling device. A cash receptacle with a belling device is called a ‘combination chip,’ or a ‘damper,’ or a ‘dinger’. | ||
DAUL 58/2: Dinger. [...] 2. (Rare) Cash register. | et al.
2. (US) a bell.
Slanguage Dict. Mod. Amer. Sl. 12: dinger, an alarm bell at the door of a bank. | ||
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 52: cling the dinger To beg from house to house. | ||
DAUL 58/2: Dinger. 1. An old-fashioned burglary alarm bell, once used outside banks, shops, etc. [...] 3. A bell or bell-like sound. | et al.
3. a telephone.
DSUE (8th edn) 310/1: since early 1930s. |
4. a railroad conductor.
Railroad Avenue 340: Dinger – Conductor (man who rings the bell). |