boing
/bɔɪŋ
/exclamation
Representing a reverberating sound, especially the noise made by the release of a compressed spring: an idea struck him. Boing!...
- A video feed of the rabbits’ secluded, hand-built habitat can be quite dull until suddenly a brown blur hops into the air - boing!
- I'm gonna be right behind you, shooting out the glass and then - boing… through it we go, okay?
- It sounds like this: ‘Boing boing boing - boiiiiing boing boingg…‘
noun
A reverberating sound: there was a loud boing...
- Maybe it's the presence of the cameras, but where their smalltown guitar tales with quirky keyboard boings usually sound pastoral and reflective on record, tonight they crank everything up to eleven.
- It is the maxim which amid crashes and boings, jaunty jingles and fusillades of machine gun bullets has powered two philosophy graduates from the University of York to a fortune.
- Despite their pastoral name, the sound is confident and expansive, tight as a drum and overlaid with a variety of keyboard boings.
verb [no object]
Make a reverberating sound: this music boings and burbles...
- A fourth is revealed to be playing a very silly videogame replete with boinging sound effects.
Origin
1950s: imitative.