red mixed with white: pink and white stripesbright/hot pink bright pink lipstickpale/light pink pale pink carnations → see also be tickled pinkat tickle1 (3)
adjective | noun
pinkpink2 ●●●S2 nounEtymology
ETYMOLOGYpink2
Origin: 1500-1600 Perhaps from pink eye half-shut eye, used as a name for the plant, from Dutch pink oogen small eyes
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS►in pink
She was dressed in pink.
1[countable, uncountable] a pale color made by mixing red and white: She was dressed in pink.2[countable] a garden plant with pink, white, or red flowers3in the pink old-fashioned in very good health