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DINK¹

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

Originally US. First attested in the 1980s.

noun DINKs · dink

  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."

    Opposite: DIWK

dink²

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

Imitative. Originally US. Attested since the 1930s.

noun 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.’
  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.

verb dinks · dinking · 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.
  5. slang, transitive To land a non-lethal headshot on.

    Similar: goosh

dink³

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

Origin unknown. Attested since the 1930s.

noun dinks

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

verb dinks · dinking · 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.

dink⁴

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

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”).

noun 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.

    Similar: gook

dink⁵

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

verb dinks · dinking · dinked

  1. Internet, deliberate, humorous, misspelling Deliberate misspelling of drink (“to consume a liquid through the mouth”) dink my oiter

dink⁶

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

noun dinks

  1. Australia, US Alternative letter-case form of DINK (“double income, no kids”).

dink⁷

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

See dinkum.

adjective

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

adverb

  1. Australia, New Zealand, not comparable Honestly, truly. Are you The Banjo? Fair dink no bull? Oh, sorry, lady, I mean ... dinki-di?

noun

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

dink⁸

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

Origin unknown. Attested since the late nineteenth century.

noun 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.
  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.

dink⁹

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

Origin unknown. Attested in English and in Scots since the sixteenth century.

adjective

  1. archaic, dialectal, not comparable 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[…]

dink10

  • /dɪŋk/

Rhymes with -ɪŋk

Where it comes from

See dinq.

adjective

  1. US, alternative, not comparable Alternative spelling of dinq

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@misc{dink_2026,
  title = {dink},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dink},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}