dink
IPA: dˈɪŋk
noun
- (tennis) A soft drop shot.
- (pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
- (soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
- (Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
- (US, military slang, derogatory, dated) A North Vietnamese soldier.
- (Australia, Northern England) Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
- (historical, dated) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) The penis.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) A foolish or contemptible person.
- Initialism of double income, no kids. - a childless couple with two jobs and thus two incomes
- (US) Initialism of double income no kids.
verb
- (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
- (pickleball) To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
- (soccer) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
- (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.
adjective
- (Australia, New Zealand) Honest, fair, true.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.
- (archaic or dialectal) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.
- (US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq [(US, Navy, slang) Not making a requisite amount of progress in one's qualifications.]
adverb
- (Australia, New Zealand) Honestly, truly.
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Examples of "dink" in Sentences
- A soft drop shot is knwon as a dink.
- Hopefully a current dink can help out.
- But kasten was a dink and that's why Russ won.
- Dink promised to come along but does not bother.
- Not trying to be a Dink... sorry about the links.
- Arat Dink continued to serve as the executive editor.
- Dink Smallwood is a humorous computer role playing game.
- Copy a userbox onto a user subpage, and then dink around with it.
- In addition, one of the links referred to the murder of Hrant Dink.
- Linda becomes determined to take Dink away from Champ and their life of squalor.
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