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Dictionary: dink1   (dĭngk) pronunciation
n. Sports
A drop shot.

[From dink, sound of a weakly hit or dropped ball.]


dink2 (dĭngk) pronunciation
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a North Vietnamese soldier or guerrilla in the Vietnam War.

[Origin unknown.]


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Hacker Slang: dink
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Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with — sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32-bit architectures about 16-bit machines. “GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine.” Probably derived from mainstream ‘dinky’, which isn't sufficiently pejorative. See macdink.


(Vietnam)Enemy or, generically, Vietnameese.

WordNet: dink
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net
  Synonym: drop shot


Wikipedia: Dink
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Dink may refer to:

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People

Things

  • A small auxiliary boat affixed to a sailboat, also known as a dinghy
  • Dinky Toy, an early manufacturer of small, die-cast toy cars
  • Dink (band), an American industrial rock band

In fiction

  • Dink, the Little Dinosaur, a children's animated series broadcast in the United States in the 1980s
  • A group of munchkin-like characters in red robes in the 1987 movie Spaceballs
  • Dink Smallwood, the name of a PC RPG made in 1997 and is also the name of the main character
  • Dink Meeker, a character in the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card
  • Dink (James Bond), a woman in the James Bond film Goldfinger
  • Mr. Dink, a character on the Nickelodeon television series Doug

Slang

  • A person of Chinese / Far-eastern origin
  • D.I.N.K: Dual Income No Kids, a financial term used for couples with no kids
  • A 'jerk' or 'goof'
  • A euphemism for being delinquent on training
  • A hypocorism for the given name Dennis
  • A term used to mean "Mess With" as in "I'm going to dink with that until it works". Along similar lines, in computer science, to increment or decrement a counter. "In counting from 4 to 6, it dinks the counter two times"
  • An onomatopoeia for the sound when a golf ball goes in the hole
  • A fully grown person who looks like they are still dressed by their mother
  • A ride given to someone on a pushbike
  • Military slang for a recruit in training, "Desperately In Need of Knowledge"
  • In Counter Strike and Counter Strike: Source. a dink refers to taking damage from a headshot but not dying. It is called a dink because of the sound it makes when the player is shot in the head with a helmet (It makes a sound similar to saying "Dink")
  • A common reference for the short dagger known as a Dirk. (-Jensen-)

Sports

  • In volleyball: tapping the ball just barely over the net after faking a spike
  • In ice fishing: a very small fish that takes up lots of time without results. Getthenet

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