DINK

DINK

(noun) a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

DINK (plural DINKs)

double income, no kids - a childless couple with two jobs and thus two incomes

Anagrams

• -kind, kind

Etymology 1

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

(tennis) A soft drop shot.

(soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

(Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.

Verb

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.

Etymology 3

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

(US, military slang, pejorative, dated) A North Vietnamese soldier.

Etymology 4

Initialism. Originally US. Attested since the 1980s.

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

(US) Double Income No Kids - a childless couple with two jobs.

Etymology 5

Adjective

dink

(Australia, New Zealand) Honest, fair, true.

(Australia, New Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.

Adverb

dink (not comparable)

(Australia, New Zealand) Honestly, truly.

Noun

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.

Etymology 6

Noun

dink (plural dinks)

(North America, colloquial, slang) A penis.

(North America, colloquial, slang) A foolish person, a despised person. [from 1960s]

Etymology 7

Adjective

dink (not comparable)

(archaic or dialectal) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

Etymology 8

Adjective

dink (not comparable)

(US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq

Anagrams

• -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



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