A dingbat is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament".
Dingbat or dingbats might also refer to: Dingbat, slang term referring to someone silly, notably applied to the TV character Edith Bunker by her husband Dingbats (board game), a board game requiring players to solve rebuses, known in America as Whatzit? dingbat, another word for rebus derived from the game Dingbat (building), a type of cheap urban apartment building built between the 1950s and 1960s Dingbat, a paddle ball in South Africa Dingbat, a character created by Paul Terry The characters in The Dingbat Family, a comic strip drawn by George Herriman from 1910 to 1916 Dingbat, a cartoon character who co-starred in Heathcliff and Dingbat Dingbat, slang term, used as an alternate name for the Dignity Battalions Dingbat, a placeholder name for a random or unknown object Dingbats (Unicode block), a Unicode block Ornamental Dingbats, a Unicode block Webdings Wingdings
See also The Dingbats of Danger Street, a DC Comics kids' team created by Jack Kirby