• IPA: /ˈɡɪŋ/

ging (plural gings)

1. (obsolete) A company; troop; a gang.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:

     There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me.

2. (dated) A slingshot

ging (plural gings)

1. (informal) A redhead, a ginger-haired person

• IPA: /dʒɪndʒ/

1. (hypocoristic) A diminutive of the female given names Ginger and Virginia.