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Dink   /dɪŋk/   Listen
Dink

noun
1.
A couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids).
2.
A soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net.  Synonym: drop shot.





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"Dink" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cappy briskly, "sit down and tell me of your adventures during your first week as a business man. Of course, I hear from Florry that you have opened a dink of an office somewhere—got desk space with the Alaskan Codfish Corporation, haven't you, with the use of their telephone, ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... 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 ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... "I dink so too," he answered slowly. "I vill see dot der guard is all right, an' den vill get some sleep, for I am ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish


Words linked to "Dink" :   acronym, couple, match, mates, return


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