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ACME WRINGER, n. comb. [proprietary brand of clothes wringer, popular before the introduction of washing machines.] 1. Rhyming slang for 'finger' (Gsw. 1990s).

2. In phr. to go yer Acme wringer. Rhyming slang for go yer dinger (s.v. dinger n. 3.) to do something vigorously.Gsw. 1973 Molly Weir A Toe on the Ladder (1975) 139:
'Aye', said she, 'youse urr ferrly gaun yer Acme wringer the day!' I'd never heard the rhyming slang for 'Gaun yer dinger' before or, as the English would say, going at a tremendous lick, ...