Meaning of dink | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A soft drop shot.
2. Acronym of double income, no kids or dual income, no kids: a childless couple with two jobs and thus two incomes.
   Australia, US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, attributive, often
3. A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
   Australia, colloquial
4. A Vietnamese person.
   US, dated, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur
5. Alternative letter-case form of DINK (“double income, no kids”).
   Australia, US, alt-of
6. Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
   Australia, Northern-England, uncountable
7. The penis.
   Canada, US, colloquial, slang
8. A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
9. A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.
   dated, historical, uncountable
10. A foolish or contemptible person.
    Canada, US, colloquial, slang
11. A light chip; a chipped pass or shot

Equivalents

Examples

“Homer "It was a wonderful time. We were living the DINK life." Lisa "Dink?" Homer: "DINK: Dual income, no kids." Lisa: "Oh, DINK."”

“In certain states, DINKs out earn⟳ their DIWK counterparts by an even more considerable margin. As you can see⟳, DINKs in Connecticut earn⟳ 70% more than DIWKs, and DINK households make⟳ 62% more than DIWKs in Rhode Island.”

“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⟳.’”

“The forward⟳ passed to Fernandes and, as Pau López advanced, the Portuguese fashioned a sand‑wedge dink over the goalkeeper.”

“I gave him a dink on my bike.”

“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.”

“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 there's no question⟳ but what it does. [...]”

“The hair on my legs is softer than the hair around my dink, but it still grosses me out.”

“[…]he was a dink, and all the money, fame, and power in the world wouldn't change⟳ that one simple fact.”

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