Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) to nag, to harass.

1882		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 2 Dec. 7/3: I've heerd nothing but marry, marry, for the last week [...] It’s a plenty bad to have a hundred clerks dingin’ it in your ears without their puttin’ up strangers to it.
1914		G.A. England ‘Rural Locutions of Maine and Northern New Hampshire’ in DN IV:ii 71: ding (at), v. To worry, pester, tease.
1920		S. Lewis Main Street (1921) 320: Oscar kept dinging at me, and hinting I was a tightwad.
1921		Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 30 Jan. 62/1: He’s continually dinging at me about getting married, and then when I show [...] interest in anybody, there he goes kicking up the dust.
1982		W. Safire What’s The Good Word? 52: ‘I dinged him’ means ‘I communicated my desire to have this straightened out.’.

2. (US tramp, also hit the ding, put the ding) to beg money.

1927		C. Samolar ‘Argot of the Vagabond’ in AS II:9 386: Dingbat is evidently a combination of ding and batter, both meaning ‘to beg’.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks n.p.: Hit the ding, begging on the streets.
1935		E. Anderson Hungry Men 186: I spots this house, and I says to myself, I’m going to ding this place if it’s the last thing I do.
1936		K. Mackenzie Living Rough 253: When you put the ding on a guy on the street he asks you why you don’t go to work.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 58/2: Ding, v. 1. To beg on busy thoroughfares. 2. To make a pretense of begging in order to distract a victim’s attention while an accomplice commits a sneak-thievery.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
1991		(con. 1920s) O.D. Brooks Legs 115: It makes it tough on a bum trying to get a few bucks together if one or two men you ding give you a run-in.
2001		‘Randy Everhard’ Tattoo of a Naked Lady 59: Operating expenses [...] Carnies call ’em dings. Those rat bastards were dinging me to death.

3. (US) to charge money.

2015

L. Berney Long & Faraway Gone [ebook] he’d been dinged two grand in fees.