dink

noun

1. (Australia, US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, attributive, often)Acronym of double income, no kids or dual income, no kids: a childless couple with two jobs and thus two incomes.

   “Homer "It was a wonderful time. We were living the DINK life." Lisa "Dink?" Homer: "DINK: Dual income, no kids." Lisa: "Oh, DINK."”

   “In certain states, DINKs out earn their DIWK counterparts by an even more considerable margin. As you can see, DINKs in Connecticut earn 70% more than DIWKs, and DINK households make 62% more than DIWKs in Rhode Island.”

2. A soft drop shot.

   “But what I saw is she still has that sense of, ‘Okay, I need to hit a dink shot, I need to come with power now, I need to change up my serve not for a flat one, but a big kick.’”

3. A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
4. A light chip; a chipped pass or shot

   “The forward passed to Fernandes and, as Pau López advanced, the Portuguese fashioned a sand‑wedge dink over the goalkeeper.”

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

   “I gave him a dink on my bike.”

6. (US, dated, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur)A Vietnamese person.

   “Our job was to go out on night patrols and stay behind to zap any dinks we caught sneaking back to their holes at dawn.”

   “ABRAMS: [...] The term 'dink' or 'slope' or that sort of thing starts out calling the enemy that, and he's Vietnamese, the same as these, so then the next thing is all Vietnamese, call them that. It's just a bad thing. And I'm sure a great many who use it don't use it intentionally to offend, but there's no question but what it does. [...]”

7. (Australia, US, alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of DINK (“double income, no kids”).
8. (Australia, Northern-England, uncountable)Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
9. (dated, historical, uncountable)A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.
10. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang)The penis.

    “The hair on my legs is softer than the hair around my dink, but it still grosses me out.”

11. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang)A foolish or contemptible person.

    “[…]he was a dink, and all the money, fame, and power in the world wouldn't change that one simple fact.”

verb

1. To play a soft drop shot.
2. To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
3. To strike the ball gently.
4. To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.

   “The forward dinked the ball over the goalkeeper to score his first goal of the season.”

   “But the visitors started the game in stunning fashion when Morten Gamst Pedersen dinked forward a clever looping pass and Kalinic beat the offside trap, surged into the box and beautifully placed the ball past goalkeeper Scott Carson.”

   “A dinked pass intended for De Bruyne from the impressive Oscar Bobb then deflected off Jackson and looped into the net early in the second half before Foden smashed in his second.”

5. (slang, transitive)To land a non-lethal headshot on.
6. (Australia, colloquial)To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.

   “I didn't like them at all ; only the lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle.”

adj

1. (Australia, New-Zealand)Honest, fair, true.
2. (Australia, New-Zealand)Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.
3. (archaic, dialectal, not-comparable)Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

   “All these floated along with the immense tide of population, whom mere curiosity had drawn together; and where the mechanic in his leathern apron, elbowed the dink and dainty dame, his city mistress[…]”

4. (US, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable)Alternative spelling of dinq.

adv

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, not-comparable)Honestly, truly.

   “Are you The Banjo? Fair dink no bull? Oh, sorry, lady, I mean ... dinki-di?”