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- 1 Honest, fair, true. Australia, New-Zealand
- 2 Finely dressed, elegant; neat. archaic, dialectal, not-comparable
"All these floated along with the immense tide of population, whom mere curiosity had drawn together; and where the mechanic in his leathern apron, elbowed the dink and dainty dame, his city mistress[…]"
- 3 Alternative spelling of dinq. US, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
- 4 Genuine, proper, fair dinkum. Australia, New-Zealand
- 1 Honestly, truly. Australia, New-Zealand, not-comparable
"Are you The Banjo? Fair dink no bull? Oh, sorry, lady, I mean ... dinki-di?"
- 1 Acronym of double income, no kids or dual income, no kids: a childless couple with two jobs and thus two incomes. Australia, US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, attributive, often
"Homer "It was a wonderful time. We were living the DINK life." Lisa "Dink?" Homer: "DINK: Dual income, no kids." Lisa: "Oh, DINK.""
- 2 A soft drop shot.
"But what I saw is she still has that sense of, ‘Okay, I need to hit a dink shot, I need to come with power now, I need to change up my serve not for a flat one, but a big kick.’"
- 3 A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle. Australia, colloquial
"I gave him a dink on my bike."
- 4 A Vietnamese person. US, dated, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur
"Our job was to go out on night patrols and stay behind to zap any dinks we caught sneaking back to their holes at dawn."
- 5 Alternative letter-case form of DINK (“double income, no kids”). Australia, US, alt-of
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- 6 Hard work, especially one's share of a task. Australia, Northern-England, uncountable
- 7 The penis. Canada, US, colloquial, slang
"The hair on my legs is softer than the hair around my dink, but it still grosses me out."
- 8 a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net wordnet
- 9 A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
- 10 A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War. dated, historical, uncountable
- 11 A foolish or contemptible person. Canada, US, colloquial, slang
"[…]he was a dink, and all the money, fame, and power in the world wouldn't change that one simple fact."
- 12 a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids) wordnet
- 13 A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
"The forward passed to Fernandes and, as Pau López advanced, the Portuguese fashioned a sand‑wedge dink over the goalkeeper."
- 1 To play a soft drop shot.
- 2 To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar. Australia, colloquial
"I didn't like them at all ; only the lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle."
- 3 To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
- 4 To strike the ball gently.
- 5 To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
"The forward dinked the ball over the goalkeeper to score his first goal of the season."
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- 6 To land a non-lethal headshot on. slang, transitive
Etymology
Originally US. First attested in the 1980s.
Imitative. Originally US. Attested since the 1930s.
Imitative. Originally US. Attested since the 1930s.
Origin unknown. Attested since the 1930s.
Origin unknown. Attested since the 1930s.
Uncertain. Either: * A rhythmatic reduplicative of Chink, a derogatory term for a Chinese person. Attested from Australia since the 1960s (consult the American Heritage Dictionary). * or, clipping of dinky dau/dow, a corrupted borrowing from Vietnamese điên cái đầu (“[you make my] head goes crazy”).
See dinkum.
See dinkum.
See dinkum.
Origin unknown. Attested since the late nineteenth century.
Origin unknown. Attested in English and in Scots since the sixteenth century.
See dinq.
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