Word.ws English Dictionary

binked

binked is the simple past and past participle of bink.

Meaning of bink

Verb (1)

bink (third-person singular simple present binks, present participle binking, simple past and past participle binked)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) To shelter or become trapped on a ledge or crag.
    • On June 2nd, the last day of this season, Bowman spent six hours extricating as many hounds who had got themselves binked on Catle Crag in Mardale.1902, A. G. Bradley, “Fox-hunting in the Lake Country”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 86, page 196
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) To cut a bink in peat moss.
    • On June last he caused his servants cast a number of "peittis for elding unto his hous in the mosse of belonging to him heritablie, and they having binked the same and left thame in the mosse , " returned home to their master's house at night .1900, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland - Volume 2, page 516

Verb (2)

bink (third-person singular simple present binks, present participle binking, simple past and past participle binked)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) To make a bink noise.
    • My tinny typing binked.2001, Geoff Cochrane, Acetylene, page 13
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) To poke lightly.
    • It didn't hurt, not at all, but at that moment, as that ballpoint binked my chest, something binked inside my head.2005, David Gessner, Sick of Nature, page 89
  3. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) To win, especially a substantial amount due to luck.

See all 13 meanings of bink

Questions about binked

What is binked the simple past and past participle of?
Binked is the simple past and past participle of bink.

Words near binked in the dictionary

  1. binjarrees
  2. binjarries
  3. binjarry
  4. Binjura
  5. bink
  6. binked
  7. binkie
  8. binkied
  9. binkies
  10. binking
  11. Binkley

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: binked (page history and authors); bink (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “binked.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/binked. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.