in the pink

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of in the pink of health.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
2. Nude, naked.
   informal

Examples

“The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope⟳ of manufacturers everywhere. Then again, maybe we were simply a nation literally “in the pink” with postwar prosperity[…]”

“I said to Daddy, 'Can you swim⟳?' He said, 'You're not going, and that's that.' I asked him again, later on, when he was drinking his Horlicks, and he said they used to swim⟳ from one pier IN THE PINK - Laurie Graham.”

“[I] Somehow believed / That her shit didn't stink / Until I caught her / In the pink / Making her tight / Asshole wink / Turns out this slimy bitch / Had done me grimy for years […]”

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