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Definition of "jingle-jangle" []

  • A trinket; anything that jingles. (noun)
  • A jingling sound. (noun)
  • To make a jingling sound.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "jingle-jangle" in a sentence
  • "It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing."
  • "Sound is sucked into the vacuum of crisis, crumbs of birdsong and motorcycle engines and ice cream truck jingle-jangle mixed together into a heady cocktail of nothing."
  • "There was something epic and perhaps even Bollywood-tinged about some of the camera angles, which featured more extreme, squinting facial portraits than normal, notably in an opening segment dominated by the Indian bowler Sreesanth, surely the most accessorised cricketer in history, a jingle-jangle scarecrow of bangles, bandages, medallions and bracelets."