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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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 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] (1994-10-31)