A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc
The compulsive editor, when checking the specs on an article, can't help checking also for such items as initial capital and closing dingbat, if they are used routinely. These decorative items have a way of being forgotten....
a silly empty-headed person; "you would be a dingbat even to try it"; "yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister
A typographical character subject to scorn because it has no apparent relation to the alphabet Many dingbats are pictograms - tiny pictures of telephones, skiers, airplanes, churches, and the like, used in the travel industry Others are more abstract