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
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
