Dingbat (disambiguation)
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A dingbat
Dingbat
A dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament" or "printer's character"....

is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament"

Dingbat or dingbats might also refer to:
  • Dingbat, slang term, used to describe someone silly, notably applied to the TV character Edith Bunker
    Edith Bunker
    Edith Bunker is a fictional 1970s sitcom character on All in the Family , played by Jean Stapleton. She was the wife of Archie Bunker , mother of Gloria Stivic, mother-in-law of Michael "Meathead" Stivic, and, after 1975, grandmother of Joey Stivic...

     by her husband.
  • Dingbats
    Dingbats
    Dingbats is the name of a board game that was devised by Paul Sellers and is currently manufactured by Ravensburger. The game, for two or more people, involves solving rebuses...

    , a board game in which players must solve rebuses
    • dingbat, another word for rebus
      Rebus
      A rebus is an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames, for example in its basic form 3 salmon fish to denote the name "Salmon"...

       derived from the game
  • Dingbat (building)
    Dingbat (building)
    A dingbat is a type of formulaic apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two- or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front parking...

    , slang term, used to describe cheap urban apartment buildings from the 1950s & 60s
  • Dingbat, in South Africa, a paddle ball
    Paddle ball
    Paddle ball is a one-person game played with an attached ball and paddle. Using a flat paddle with a small rubber ball attached at the center via an elastic string, the player tries to hit the ball with the paddle in succession as many times as possible. The paddle is usually made from either...

  • Dingbat, a character created by Paul Terry
    Paul Terry (cartoonist)
    Paul Houlton Terry was an American cartoonist, screenwriter, film director and one of the most prolific film producers in history...

  • "The Dingbat Family", a comic by George Herriman
    George Herriman
    George Joseph Herriman was an American cartoonist, best known for his classic comic strip Krazy Kat.-Early life:...

  • Dingbat, a cartoon character who co-starred in Heathcliff and Dingbat
    Heathcliff (1980 TV series)
    Heathcliff is an animated TV series that debuted on October 4, 1980. It was the first series based on the Heathcliff comic strip and was produced by Ruby-Spears Productions...

    .
  • Dingbat, slang term, used as an alternate name for the Dignity Battalions
    Dignity Battalions
    The Dignity Battalions were paramilitary combatants created by Panama's military government in the 1980s to help train workers and farmers to defend Panama against invasion by the United States...


See also

  • The Dingbats of Danger Street
    Dingbats of Danger Street
    The Dingbats of Danger Street are a fictional comic book gang of kids published by DC Comics. The Dingbats debuted in 1st Issue Special #6 , and were created by Jack Kirby.-Publication history:...

    , a DC Comics kids' team created by Jack Kirby
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