Din-dins

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Dinner. childish, uncountable

    "[…] so it went for nothing, my only real moment in the play, and when I asked him afterwards what the hell he thought he was up to, he said, well darling, if we're all so desperate for our din-dins we're not allowed a decent curtain, and I said it wasn't din-dins, it was just that the rest of us didn't particularly enjoy going on bowing after the audience had stopped clapping."

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"[…] so it went for nothing, my only real moment in the play, and when I asked him afterwards what the hell he thought he was up to, he said, well darling, if we're all so desperate for our din-dins we're not allowed a decent curtain, and I said it wasn't din-dins, it was just that the rest of us didn't particularly enjoy going on bowing after the audience had stopped clapping."

Etymology

Diminutive form of dinner.

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