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dink

/dɪŋk/

dink noun: a soft drop shot. Also the deliberate misspelling of drink.

Noun (1)

dink (plural dinks)

  1. A soft drop shot.
    • But what I saw is she still has that sense of, ‘Okay, I need to hit a dink shot, I need to come with power now, I need to change up my serve not for a flat one, but a big kick.’2018 February 12, Ava Wallace, “New mother Serena Williams returns to tennis, with a little rust and plenty to learn”, in Washington Post
  2. A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
  3. A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
    • The forward passed to Fernandes and, as Pau López advanced, the Portuguese fashioned a sand‑wedge dink over the goalkeeper.2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian

Verb (1)

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

  1. To play a soft drop shot.
  2. To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
  3. To strike the ball gently.
  4. 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.
    • 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.2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC
  5. (slang, transitive) To land a non-lethal headshot on.
    Synonyms:
    goosh

Noun (2)

dink (plural dinks)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
    • I gave him a dink on my bike.

Verb (2)

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

  1. (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.
    • I didn't like them at all ; only the lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle.1947, John Lehmann, editor, The Penguin New Writing, number 30, page 103

Noun (3)

dink (plural dinks)

  1. (US, dated, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur) A Vietnamese person.
    • Our job was to go out on night patrols and stay behind to zap any dinks we caught sneaking back to their holes at dawn.1989, Craig Roberts, Charles W. Sasser, The Walking Dead: A Marine's Story of Vietnam, page 197
    • ABRAMS: [...] The term 'dink' or 'slope' or that sort of thing starts out calling the enemy that, and he's Vietnamese, the same as these, so then the next thing is all Vietnamese, call them that. It's just a bad thing. And I'm sure a great many who use it don't use it intentionally to offend, but...2004 [1970], Lewis Sorley, editor, Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972, Texas Tech University Press, page 355
    Synonyms:
    gook

Adjective (1)

dink

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) Honest, fair, true.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.

Adverb

dink (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) Honestly, truly.
    • Are you The Banjo? Fair dink no bull? Oh, sorry, lady, I mean ... dinki-di?2006, Pip Wilson, Face in the Street, page 323

Noun (4)

dink (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, Northern England) Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
  2. (dated, historical) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.

Noun (5)

dink (plural dinks)

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) The penis.
    • The hair on my legs is softer than the hair around my dink, but it still grosses me out.2004, Brian Francis, Fruit: A Novel about a Boy and his Nipples, page 2
  2. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) A foolish or contemptible person.
    • […]he was a dink, and all the money, fame, and power in the world wouldn't change that one simple fact.1997, Chris Gudgeon, You’re Not as Good as You Think, page 13

Adjective (2)

dink (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.
    • All these floated along with the immense tide of population, whom mere curiosity had drawn together; and where the mechanic in his leathern apron, elbowed the dink and dainty dame, his city mistress[…]1821, Walter Scott, Kenilworth, page 249

Noun (6) capitalized: DINK

DINK (plural DINKs)

  1. (Australia, US, abbreviation, acronym, attributive, often) Acronym of double income, no kids or dual income, no kids: a childless couple with two jobs and thus two incomes.
    • Homer "It was a wonderful time. We were living the DINK life."
    • Lisa "Dink?"
    • Homer: "DINK: Dual income, no kids."
    • Lisa: "Oh, DINK."2018, “3 Scenes Plus a Tag From a Marriage”, in The Simpsons
    Antonyms:
    DIWK

Also used as

dink is also the deliberate misspelling of drink.

dink is also the alternative letter-case form of DINK.

dink is also the alternative spelling of dinq.

Examples of dink in a sentence

  • A dinked pass intended for De Bruyne from the impressive Oscar Bobb then deflected off Jackson and looped into the net early in the second half before Foden smashed in his second.2024 January 7, Gary Rose, “Manchester City 5-0 Huddersfield Town”, in BBC Sport:
  • ABRAMS: [...] The term 'dink' or 'slope' or that sort of thing starts out calling the enemy that, and he's Vietnamese, the same as these, so then the next thing is all Vietnamese, call them that.2004 [1970], Lewis Sorley, editor, Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972, Texas Tech University Press, page 355:

All 14 example sentences with dink

Synonyms of dink

Antonyms

Forms of dink

Noun
pluraldinks
pluralDINKs
alternative formdink
Verb
third-person singular presentdinks
present participledinking
past participledinked
pastdinked

Plural of dink: dinks

Origin of dink

Imitative. Originally US. Attested since the 1930s.

Origin unknown. Attested since the 1930s.

Uncertain. Either: * A rhythmatic reduplicative of Chink, a derogatory term for a Chinese person. Attested from Australia since the 1960s (consult the American Heritage Dictionary). * or, clipping of dinky dau/dow, a corrupted borrowing from Vietnamese điên cái đầu (“[you make my] head goes crazy”).

Words formed from dink

Words that rhyme with dink

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Questions about dink

What does dink mean?
Dink means a soft drop shot.
How do you use dink in a sentence?
A dinked pass intended for De Bruyne from the impressive Oscar Bobb then deflected off Jackson and looped into the net early in the second half before Foden smashed in his second.
What part of speech is dink?
Dink can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or an adverb.
How do you pronounce dink?
Dink is pronounced /dɪŋk/.
What is the plural of dink?
The plural of dink is dinks.

Words near dink in the dictionary

  1. dinitrotoluenes
  2. dinituximab
  3. Diniz
  4. Dinizes
  5. Dinjii Zhuʼ Ginjik
  6. dink
  7. Dinka
  8. Dinkaland
  9. Dinkas
  10. dinked
  11. dinkel

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