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in the pink

in the pink prepositional phrase: nude, naked. Also the ellipsis of in the pink of health.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (informal) Nude, naked.
    • I said to Daddy, 'Can you swim?' He said, 'You're not going, and that's that.' I asked him again, later on, when he was drinking his Horlicks, and he said they used to swim from one pier IN THE PINK - Laurie Graham.1999, Nicholas Royle, Neonlit: The Time Out Book of New Writing
    • [I] Somehow believed / That her shit didn't stink / Until I caught her / In the pink / Making her tight / Asshole wink / Turns out this slimy bitch / Had done me grimy for years […]2011 September 15, Donald T. Williams, The Devil Made Me Do It Too: Pressing, Personal, Poetic, Purview, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 115

Also used as

in the pink is also the ellipsis of in the pink of health.

Questions about in the pink

What does in the pink mean?
In the pink means nude, naked.
What part of speech is in the pink?
In the pink is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the pink in the dictionary

  1. in the oven
  2. in the palm of one's hand
  3. in the pay of
  4. in the person of
  5. in the picture
  6. in the pink
  7. in the pink of health
  8. in the pipeline
  9. in the pocket
  10. in the pocket of someone
  11. in the post

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