dink

See also DINK

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪŋk/

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

1. (tennis) A soft drop shot.
2. (US, pejorative) A North Vietnamese soldier.
3. (US) Double Income No Kids - a childless couple with two jobs
4. (Canada, colloquial) A penis.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Verb

dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)

1. (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
2. (soccer) 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.

   • 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, BBC:

     But the visitors started the game in stunning fashion when Morten Gamst Pedersen dinked forward a clever looping pass and Kalinic beat the offside trap, surged into the box and beautifully placed the ball past goalkeeper Scott Carson.

3. (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.

   I gave him a dink on my bike.

   • 1947, John Lehmann (editor), The Penguin New Writing, Issue 30, page 103,

     I didn't like them at all ; only the lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle.

Translations

sports

• Dutch: lobben (nl)

Adjective

dink (not comparable)

1. (US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq.

Anagrams

• kind

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Afrikaans

Verb

dink

1. think

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Scots

Adjective

dink (comparative mair dink, superlative maist dink)

1. neat and tidy

Verb

tae dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinkin, simple past dinkt, past participle dinkt)

1. to deck