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dingbats
/ ˈdɪŋˌbæts /
plural noun
- the dingbats slang.delirium tremens
- give someone the dingbats informal.to make someone nervous
adjective
- informal.crazy or stupid
Example Sentences
These structures became known as dingbats, a common developer name for a structure that was “thrown up quick and shoddily built,” as a newspaper reported at the time.
These structures, also known as dingbats, can be retrofitted by installing a steel frame to support the ground story.
Since the law passed, Los Angeles has made substantial progress in strengthening its earthquake-vulnerable apartment buildings with weak first stories, which are often known as “dingbats” or “soft story” buildings.
Soft-story apartments, also known as dingbats, have flimsy poles on the ground floor that prop up carports and can snap in an earthquake.
Some California cities say they are exploring retrofits of a different type of flawed structure: soft-story apartment buildings — also called dingbats — that have flimsy ground stories often to accommodate carports or garages.
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