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Definition of "jingle" []

  • To make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound. (verb-intransitive)
  • To have the catchy sound of a simple, repetitious rhyme or doggerel. (verb-intransitive)
  • To cause to make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound. (verb-transitive)
  • The sound produced by or as if by bits of metal striking together. (noun)
  • A piece of light singsong verse or rhyme. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "jingle" in a sentence
  • "Special thanks to Kosta Andreadis for our awesome title jingle!"
  • "Into his head had come a new mantra, a jingle from a commercial on TV when he was growing up, a child of baseball fields and macadam basketball courts with their bent and rusted hoops and the intense otherworldly green of a New York summer, a green so multivalent and assertive it was like a promise of life to come."
  • "One thing is for sure; it has nothing whatever to do with the mealy mouthed jingle from the Home Office called the Policing Pledge."