dinkn.1
Australian.
A ride or lift on the bar of a bicycle. Also v. transitive, to give (a person) such a lift.
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1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Sept. 20/2 The fortunate Melbourne schoolkid with a bike..is asked by his cobbers for a ‘dink’.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 25 Double-dink, to carry a second person on the top bar of a bicycle. It is also a noun. Exchangeable terms are ‘dink’, ‘donk’, and ‘double-bank’, both as verbs and nouns.
1948 Coast to Coast 1947 135 The lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
dinkn.2
/dɪŋk/, U.S. /dɪŋk/ U.S.
A drop-shot in lawn tennis. Also attributive. So as v. intransitive (see quot. 19422).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > types of stroke
service1611
serving1688
screw1865
cut1874
cutting service1874
boast1878
first serve1878
smash1882
twister1884
cross-shot1889
lob1890
ground stroke1895
lob ball1900
twist service1901
boasting1902
cross-volley1905
get1911
chop1913
forehander1922
kick serve1925
forehand1934
touch shot1936
dink1939
net shot1961
overhead1964
groundie1967
slice1969
moonball1975
moonballing1977
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > play tennis [verb (intransitive)] > types of stroke
volley1819
cut1875
to kill a ball1883
press1897
undercut1926
dink1939
moonball1982
softball1982
1939 J. D. Budge On Tennis 120 Some players resent their opponent's using the drop shot, or the ‘dink’ shot as they scornfully refer to it.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §717/2 Dink, a ball that drops just beyond the net.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §717/3 Dink, to barely knock the ball over the net.
1959 Times 30 June 3/3 Some delicate touch shots, cross-court and half-court—the dink as the Americans call it.
1959 Times 1 Sept. 3/3 Drop shots, stop volleys and dinks were conspicuous by their absence.
1969 New Yorker 14 June 45/2 Nobody in his right mind, really, would try those little dink shots he tries as often as he does.
1969 New Yorker 14 June 61/2 He will dink. He spins his first serve in more.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dinkn.3
/dɪŋk/, U.S. /dɪŋk/ U.S. Military slang.
A derogatory or contemptuous term for a Vietnamese person.
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1969 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 2A/4 He also criticized U.S. military training, which he said permits references to the Vietnamese as ‘gooks, dinks, or slopes’.
1970 Guardian 30 July 7/5 These are not people... They are dinks and gooks and slant-eyed bastards.
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dinkn.4adj.2
Australian (and New Zealand) colloquial.
= dinkum n., adj., and adv.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]
spahi1562
legionnaire1595
strelitz1603
Croat1623
deli1667
Croatian1700
lancer1712
highlander1725
lambs1744
royals1762
light-bob1778
fly-slicer1785
Life Guardsman1785
royals?1795
Hottentot1796
yeoman1798
pandour1800
Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811
forty-two man1816
kilty1842
Zouave1848
bumblerc1850
Inniskilliner1853
blue cap1857
turco1860
Zou-Zou1860
mudlark1878
king's man1883
Johnny1888
Piffer1892
evzone1897
horse gunner1897
dink1906
army ranger1910
grognard1912
Jock1914
chocolate soldier1915
Cook's tourist1915
dinkum1916
Anzaca1918
choc1917
ranger1942
Chindit1943
Desert Rat1944
Green Beret1949
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Australian and New Zealand
dink1906
Anzac1915
Cook's tourist1915
dinkum1916
kiwi1918
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands viii. 92 'Twasn't fair dink t'go outside ther firm.
1939 W. E. McKinlay Ways & Byways of Singing Kiwi i. 24 One of the Battalions being known as the ‘Square Dinks’ and another as the ‘Fair Dinks’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
dinkn.5
/dɪŋk/, U.S. /dɪŋk/ slang (originally North American).
= dinky n.4
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the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > partner in affluent couple
dinky1986
dink1987
1987 New York 12 Jan. 16/1 When a friend referred to two young professionals as ‘a couple of dinks’, it was a bit surprising... Double Income, No Kids.
1987 Times on Sunday (Sydney) 22 Feb. 32/3 The gurus of advertising are..trying to find the real monied trendies who aren't wasting their time and income on children. These are DINKs, couples with Double Income No Kids.
1988 N.Y. Times 28 Apr. c11/1 Working people, whether single or dinks (dual income, no kids), are meeting other suburbanites.
1990 Chicago Tribune 26 Aug. (Travel Suppl.) 6/6 The DINKS..and empty-nesters now have a greater potential to travel off-season.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dinkadj.1
/dɪŋk/, U.S. /dɪŋk/, Scottish English /dɪŋk/ Scottish and northern dialect.
Finely dressed, decked out; trim.
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?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 51 Him that dressit me so dink.
1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 55 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 262 Ane fair blyth wyf he had of ony ane Bot scho wes sumthing dynk and dengerous.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 200 As dink as a lady.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 886 My Lady's dink, my Lady's drest, The flower and fancy o' the west.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xiii. 325 The mechanic, in his leathern apron, elbowed the dink and dainty dame, his city mistress.
1891 F. O. Morris in Morning Post 25 July 3/6 The pied wagtail, running about so nimbly, dink and dainty, over the lawn.
Derivatives
ˈdinkly adv.
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1788 R. Galloway Poems 163 They stand sae dinkly, rank and file.
1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew cxix. 32.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dinkv.
/dɪŋk/, U.S. /dɪŋk/, Scottish English /dɪŋk/ Scottish.
transitive. To dress finely, to deck.
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1811 A. Scott Poems (new ed.) 132 (Jam.) In braw leather boots..I dink me.
1831 W. Scott Abbot (new ed.) I. xx. 349 I am now too old to dink myself as a gallant to grace the bower of dames.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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