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Webster 1913 Edition


dink

dink

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Verb.
T.
To deck; – often with
out
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up
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[Scot.]

Definition 2024


dink

dink

See also: DINK

English

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 ****.

Quotations

  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:dink.

Verb

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

  1. (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
  2. (soccer) 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”, in BBC:
      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.

Translations

Adjective

dink (not comparable)

  1. (US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq

Anagrams


Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dinken, a regional variant of denken.

Verb

dink (present dink, present participle denkende, past dag or dog, past participle gedag or gedog or gedink)

  1. to think
    • 1939, Jaarboek, page 44:
      Ons het gedag dat die behoefte om te pleit om 'n dergelike samewerikng []
    • 1951, Suid-Afrikaanse Hofverslae, volume 3, page 79:
      [] ek het gedag dat met my man se dood dit sal nou tot niet geraak het.
    • 1993, A Grammar of Afrikaans, Bruce Donaldson, page 223:
      Hy het gedag/gedog/gedink ek sou eers môre kom.

Usage notes

  • The regular past form het gedink can be used in all senses.
  • The irregular past forms dag, dog; het gedag, het gedog can only be used in the sense of “to believe, to reckon (that)”, but not in the sense of “to think about, to ponder”.

Derived terms

  • bedink
  • nadink

Scots

Adjective

dink (comparative mair dink, superlative maist dink)

  1. neat and tidy

Verb

dink (third-person singular present dinks, present participle dinkin, past dinkt, past participle dinkt)

  1. to deck