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dingbat

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ding·bat  (dngbt)
n.
1. Slang An empty-headed or silly person.
2. An object, such as a brick or stone, used as a missile.
3. Slang An unspecified gadget or other small article, especially one whose name is unknown or forgotten.
4. Printing A typographical ornament or symbol.
[Probably ding + bat (as in bats in the belfry).]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dingbat - a silly empty-headed person; "you would be a dingbat even to try it"; "yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister"
simpleton, simple - a person lacking intelligence or common sense


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No self-respecting preservationist will stoop so low as to mention dingbat in the same sentence as architects Richard Neutra, Rudolf Schindler or even Googies -- the roadside coffee shops and restaurants like Bob's Big Boy that have become treasured examples of the city's modernist past.
BOXED IN by IBOLD, HANS / Los Angeles Business Journal
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Nowhere by Satuloff, Bob / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Photo: Lucifer (Kathleen Robertson), left, Mel (Rachel True) and Dingbat (Christina Applegate) are a few of the sketchy, self-destructive losers who wander in and out of the main character's orbit in ``Nowhere.
AN APT TITLE FOR WHINY `NOWHERE' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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