Definition of "jingle"

jingle

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡl̩/

noun
plural jingles
1. The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
2. (music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.
3. (broadcasting, advertising, music) A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.
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  The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”
  2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎
4. A carriage drawn by horses.
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  They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.
  1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, page 85
5. (slang) A brief telephone call.
6. A jingle shell.
7. (slang, uncountable) Coin money.
  Quotations
  If all you folks who donate your hard-earned jingle to PETA aren't convinced of your ill-advised ways yet, you should probably check this out.
  2004, “P.E.T.A.”, in Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2, episode 1
8. (Philippines, colloquial) Pee, urine.
verb
third-person singular simple present jingles, present participle jingling, simple past and past participle jingled
1. (intransitive) To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
  Quotations
  He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really.
  1922 February, James Joyce, “[IV]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], part II [Odyssey], page 54
2. (transitive) To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
3. (dated, intransitive) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
  Quotations
  jingling street ballads
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
4. (Philippines, colloquial) To pee, to urinate.

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