DINK
(noun) a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
DINK (plural DINKs)
double income, no kids - a childless couple with two jobs and thus two incomes
• -kind, kind
dink (plural dinks)
(tennis) A soft drop shot.
(soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)
(tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
(football) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
dink (plural dinks)
(Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
dink (third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)
(Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.
dink (plural dinks)
(US, military slang, pejorative, dated) A North Vietnamese soldier.
Initialism. Originally US. Attested since the 1980s.
dink (plural dinks)
(US) Double Income No Kids - a childless couple with two jobs.
dink
(Australia, New Zealand) Honest, fair, true.
(Australia, New Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.
dink (not comparable)
(Australia, New Zealand) Honestly, truly.
dink (uncountable)
(Australia, Northern England) Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
(historical, dated) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.
dink (plural dinks)
(North America, colloquial, slang) A penis.
(North America, colloquial, slang) A foolish person, a despised person. [from 1960s]
dink (not comparable)
(archaic or dialectal) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.
dink (not comparable)
(US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq
• -kind, kind
Source: Wiktionary
Dink, a. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: Trim; neat. [Scot.] Burns.
– Dink"ly, adv.
Dink, v. t.
Definition: To deck; -- often with out or up. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
