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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