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Tinkerbells

Tinkerbells is the plural of Tinkerbell.

Meaning of Tinkerbell

Noun

Tinkerbell (plural Tinkerbells)

  1. Anything whose existence or power depends on the faith of believers.
    • I characterize it as the "Tinkerbell Approach" to policy development: It might work if all the children would just believe hard enough and clap their hands1988, Caroline Arden, Getting the Donkey Out of the Ditch: The Democratic Party in Search of Itself, page 104
  2. (derogatory, offensive, slang) A homosexual or effeminate man.
    • When he confronted his boss he screamed at him about being gay and fired him saying he didn't want "Tinkerbells" working for him.1986, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee, Federal and Local Governments' Response to the AIDS Epidemic...

Questions about Tinkerbells

What is Tinkerbells the plural of?
Tinkerbells is the plural of Tinkerbell.

Words near Tinkerbells in the dictionary

  1. Tinkerbell
  2. tinkerbell fairyflies
  3. tinkerbell fairyfly
  4. Tinkerbell line
  5. Tinkerbell lines
  6. Tinkerbells
  7. tinkerbird
  8. tinkerbirds
  9. tinkerdom
  10. tinkered
  11. tinkerer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tinkerbells (page history and authors); Tinkerbell (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.

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