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[syn: drop shot, dink]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dink \Dink\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
Trim; neat. [Scot.] --Burns. -- Dink"ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dink \dink\, v. t.
To deck; -- often with out or up. [Scot.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dink \dink\, n. [ca. 1985, acronym from double income no kids.]
either of a married couple who both are employed and have no
children. The term is often used as the prototype of
midde-class persons with higher-than-average disposable
income.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dink \dink\, n. (Tennis)
a ball hit softly that falls to the ground just beyond the
net.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dink \dink\, n.
an Asian person, especially a Vietnamese; -- used
contemptuously, considered disparaging and offensive. [U.S.
slang]
Syn: slant, slope. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
DINK
n 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 [syn: drop shot, dink]
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
dink
/dink/, adj.
Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to
be worth bothering with ? sometimes 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 isn't sufficiently
pejorative. See macdink.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
dink
/dink/ Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a
machine too small to be worth bothering with - sometimes 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 isn't sufficiently pejorative.
See macdink.
[Jargon File]
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