dinguer

A familiar verb meaning to go flying, crash, or be sent sprawling — almost always paired with a movement verb, most famously in envoyer dinguer (to send someone or something packing, brusquely).

• Le vélo a glissé et il est allé dinguer sur le trottoir. — The bike skidded and he went flying onto the sidewalk.
• Elle en a eu marre et a envoyé dinguer son patron. — She got fed up and told her boss where to go.
• Le ballon a dingué contre la vitre. — The ball went flying into the window.

Dinguer rarely stands alone outside set phrases like aller dinguer or envoyer dinguer — conjugating it freely in a plain sentence sounds unnatural; it belongs strictly to familiar spoken French.

• expression envoyer dinguer — A 19th-century colloquial expression, rooted in the onomatopoeia "ding" for a swinging bell being knocked aside, meaning to brusquely rebuff or send someone packing.