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bing

1[bing]
noun British Dialect.
a heap or pile.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Old Norse bingr bunk, bin

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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bing

2[bing]
verb (used without object) Obsolete.
to go.

Origin:
1560–70; origin uncertain

Bing

[bing]
noun
a variety of dark red or blackish sweet cherry.
Also called Bing cherry.


Origin:
1920–25, Americanism

Bing

[bing]
noun
1.
Sir Rudolf, 1902–97, English opera impresario born in Austria; in the U.S. 1949–97.
2.
a male given name.
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bing (bɪŋ)
 
n
dialect a heap or pile, esp of spoil from a mine
 
[C16: from Old Norse bingr heap]

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bing
"heap or pile," 1510s, from O.N. bingr "heap." Also used from early 14c. as a word for bin, perhaps from notion of "place where things are piled."
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