• IPA: /ˈdʒɪŋɡəl/

jingle (plural jingles)

1. The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.

   He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.

2. (music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.

   Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.

3. (advertising) A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.

   That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.

4. A carriage drawn by horses.
5. (slang) A brief phone call; a ring.

   Give me a jingle when you find out something.

6. A jingle shell.
7. (slang, uncountable) Coin money.
   • 2004, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "P.E.T.A." (season 2, episode 1)

     If all you folks who donate your hard-earned jingle to PETA aren't convinced of your ill-advised ways yet, you should probably check this out.

• Russian: звон

• Portuguese: jingle

jingle (jingles, present participle jingling; past jingled, past participle jingled)

1. To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.

   The beads jingled as she walked.

   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter IV:

     He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really.

2. To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.

   She jingled the beads as she walked.

3. (dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

• Russian: бренча́ть

• Russian: звя́кать

• jangle