jingle

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jin·gle1 /ˈdʒɪŋɡəl/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

SOUNDto shake small metal things together so that they make a sound, or to make this sound （使）〔金属小物〕发出叮当声

He jingled his car keys.

他把汽车钥匙弄得叮当响。

Examples from the Corpus

jingle• The chain on his amulets begins to jingle.• The tips in her sagging pockets jingled and banged against her leg.• A herd of goats crossed the beach, the bells around their necks jingling cheerfully.• Once he thought he heard metal jingling further down the room he lived and ate and slept in.• Noah was jingling his keys in his pocket.• Dimes came baked into cakes, jammed into cans, glued to pictures of the president, and jingling loose in envelopes.• It squeaked and jingled on its hinges as they swung it behind them.• Sethe jingled the earrings for the pleasure of the crawling-already? girl, who reached for them over and over again.• The coins in his pocket jingled together noisily.• I turned the key back quietly, extracting it with shaking hands, careful not to let the keys jingle together noisily.• The crowd jingled with all their wealth.

Related topics: Music, Advertising & marketing

jingle2 noun

1. [countableC]APMBBA a short song used in advertisements 〔广告中的〕短歌

2. [singular]SOUND the sound of small metal objects being shaken together 〔金属小物撞击发出的〕叮当声► see thesaurus at sound

Examples from the Corpus

jingle• There are already plans to make the £26,000 jingle into a hit single and show the ad in cinemas.• A jingle for every occasion: birthdays, menstruation, first love.• Beyond the walls I heard the stamp and jingle of the King's escort, but he came in alone.• A little jingle in his head: East is east and lost is lost..• Then he heard, faintly but distinctly, the jingle of a bridle.• Just then there was the jingle of keys outside the door.• Most of the phrases the students came up with were jingles and slang.• He writes jingles and obscure Broadway tunes.

From Longman Business Dictionary

jinglejin·gle /ˈdʒɪŋgəl/ noun [countableC]MARKETING

a short song or tune used in advertisements

He earned a living writing advertising jingles.

Origin jingle1

(1300-1400) From the sound

jin·gle1 verbjingle2 noun

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