twink

verb

1. To twinkle; to sparkle.
2. (dialectal)To wink.
3. To chirp or twitter.
4. (derogatory, intransitive)To engage in obnoxious or abusive behaviour in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game, for example by griefing or by equipping a low-level character with advanced equipment from another player.

   “Twinking happens in virtual worlds with PD, but not to the same extent.”

   “However, the taboo surrounding twinking had all but disappeared by the time I started playing again in 2004.”

   “He used real money to buy large amounts of in-game gold then 'twinked' his new character with the best gear, upgrading as his level rapidly increased.”

   “That the twinked little brat doesn't want to mention that the only reason she won a single game was that daddy cut her a fat check.”

noun

1. One or more very small, short bursts of light.

   “1921, Almira Bailey, “The Bay on Sunday Morning” in Vignettes of San Francisco, San Francisco: The San Francisco Journal, p. 18, […] chug of the fishermen’s boats, twink of lights in the harbor at night […]”

   “But even as he went, the smile began to come on his face, caught by the tail of the sturdy sister’s black eye, with its everlasting twink.”

2. A very short moment of time.

   “[…] in a twink she won me to her love.”

   “I’d have known all about it in half a twink.”

   “[…] and once again, in the twink of nothing, I was in another big high cab, all set to go hundreds of miles across the night, and was I happy!”

3. The chaffinch.
4. (slang)A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.

   ““Where are the twinks anyway? They usually have the decency to provide one or two decorative twinks… Jesus, who needs to waste a night staring at these tired old Gucci queens.””

   “[…]the narrow gay ideal of a slim or waiflike male body, as displayed by the young "twink".”

5. (derogatory, slang)A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.

   ““I thought testosterone would turn me into a man, but it turned me into a twink,” Tom, who is nonbinary, revealed to a cackling West Village audience last week at the Greenwich House Theater in Manhattan.”

6. (Internet, derogatory, mildly)A lower-level character in a roleplaying game (MMO) which is artificially overgeared or overpowered, due to being given advanced equipment or resources via a higher-level character controlled by the same player.

   “Bind-on-account was an innovation that allowed players to transfer goods to their own twinks, but not to those of other players.”

   “Characters who were obvious twinks, possessing equipment well beyond their means, were subject to public criticism.”

7. (Internet, dated, derogatory)A player in a multi-user dungeon (MUD) who engages in abusive min-maxing behaviour and exploits or took advantage of other players for personal gain.

   “I certainly don't consider myself a twink; however it seems that anyone who doesn't agree with another's point of view is automatically labelled as such.”

   “You will not find any stock. You will not find any easy mobs. You will not find any +100 dam 'big swords of I win'. You will not find twink mudders. You will not hear about how Jim the Kewl dOOd scored last night at his sister's birthday party. You will not find bots.”

8. (New-Zealand, uncountable)Correction fluid or correction tape.
9. (New-Zealand)Synonym of correction fluid.