• Dink

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /dɪŋk/
    • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

    Full definition of dink

    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.

    Verb

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

    Adjective

    dink

    1. (US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq

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