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Meanings of ding-dong in English

We have no meanings for "ding-dong" in our records yet.
Usage of ding-dong in English
1
It was a ding-dong finish before Lyng slotted home the final score.
The Irish Times
2
It proved a ding-dong affair with scores exchanged readily at both ends.
The Irish Times
3
Guess things are tense ahead of the big ding-dong on May 13
The Irish Times
4
That was the most ding-dong night I ever spent, for a fact.
The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South
5
We settled in, not at all unreasonably, for a right old ding-dong.
The Irish Times
6
The pair crept house-to-house like Kevlar-wearing, heavily armed kids playing ding-dong ditch.
You can't stop me
7
Ah, how stupidly school bells will ding-dong, ding-dong, when one is tired.
Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates
8
On day two we had a real ding-dong of a game against USA.
Radio NZ
9
Here we see something to remind us of the town-crier and his ding-dong-bell.
Twice-Told Tales
10
This is ding-dong stuff, and Hatton's down for the third time.
The Guardian
11
What had been a genuine contest just dissolved into the same old ding-dong.
The Irish Times
12
It was just ding-dong open fighting, wonderfully spectacular in character.
With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia
13
I humoured them, and there ensued a ding-dong correspondence, in which that wretched Ref.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14
14
It would, no doubt, be a typically no-holds-barred Championship ding-dong.
The Guardian
15
Is ours this faltering, falling, shambling, This quite uncertain ding-dong-dangling?
Beyond Good and Evil
16
This ding-dong seems typical of the perennial state of war between GPs and hospital doctors.
The Guardian
Ding-dong through the time