0 something or someone that is noticeable because it is a very good example of its type:
I worked out, as we all do on these occasions, a "humdinger" of a supplementary.
Therefore, this idea that we are dealing with "humdingers", or winners, or break-throughs, is quite false in the generality of things.
There are very few "humdingers" which can be traced to one man's inventive genius.