A depression, hollow, or indentation in a surface, typically one caused by a blow or collision; a dent. Also occasionally: a blemish or bruise on the skin of a fruit.

The quality or condition of being dingy; disagreeable lack of brightness or freshness of colour or hue.

A black person; (sometimes) specifically a black musician.

A type of rapid or exaggerated vibrato associated with or considered characteristic of the playing of black musicians.

(offensive and derogatory). Designating a black person; of, relating to, frequented by, or associated with black people. Compare sense A. 3, "dingy".

To make one or more depressions, hollows, or indentations in (an object or its surface), especially by striking or pressing; to dent or damage in this way.