pling

• IPA^(key): /plɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

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pling (plural plings)

1. (computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
   • 1989, John Littler, John Maher, Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing:

     This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.

   • 1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet):

     IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.

   • 1994, Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines:

     Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.

   • 1996, Tim Wiser, “Pling thing revisited”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet):

     Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling-inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).

• Associated with Acorn Computers, e.g. used in the 1980 manual for the Acorn Atom, Atomic Theory and Practice by David Johnson-Davies.

• bang

Imitative.

pling (plural plings)

1. A soft bell-like sound; ding.

pling (third-person singular simple present plings, present participle plinging, simple past and past participle plinged)

1. (intransitive) To produce a soft bell-like sound.
   • 2019, Philip Gwynne Jones, The Venetian Masquerade:

     The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.

pling n

1. a ding or a ringing sound (often with a high and clear tone)

pling c

1. (colloquial, in "slå (någon) en pling") to call (someone, on the phone)

   Slå mig en pling när ni är färdiga

   Call me when you're done

pling

1. represents a ding or a ringing sound (often with a high and clear tone)

   Pling! Maten i mikron var klar.

   Ding! The food in the microwave was ready.

• plinga

• plinga på

• pling in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pling in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pling in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

pling n (plural plings)

1. sports field
2. square