English

Noun

dink ‎(plural dinks)

1. (tennis) A soft drop shot.
2. (US, pejorative) A North Vietnamese soldier.
3. (US) Double Income No Kids - a childless couple with two jobs
4. (Canada, colloquial) A ****.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:dink.

Verb

dink ‎(third-person singular simple present dinks, present participle dinking, simple past and past participle dinked)

1. (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
2. (soccer) 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.

   • 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:

     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.

3. (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.

   I gave him a dink on my bike.

   • 1947, John Lehmann (editor), The Penguin New Writing, Issue 30, page 103,

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

Translations

Adjective

dink ‎(not comparable)

1. (US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq

Anagrams

• kind

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dinken, a regional variant of denken.

Verb

dink ‎(present dink, present participle denkende, past dag or dog, past participle gedag or gedog or gedink)

1. to think
   • 1939, Jaarboek, page 44:

     Ons het gedag dat die behoefte om te pleit om 'n dergelike samewerikng […]

   • 1951, Suid-Afrikaanse Hofverslae, volume 3, page 79:

     […] ek het gedag dat met my man se dood dit sal nou tot niet geraak het.

   • 1993, A Grammar of Afrikaans, Bruce Donaldson, page 223:

     Hy het gedag/gedog/gedink ek sou eers môre kom.

Usage notes

• The regular past form het gedink can be used in all senses.
• The irregular past forms dag, dog; het gedag, het gedog can only be used in the sense of “to believe, to reckon (that)”, but not in the sense of “to think about, to ponder”.

Derived terms

• bedink
• nadink

Scots

Adjective

dink ‎(comparative mair dink, superlative maist dink)

1. neat and tidy

Verb

dink ‎(third-person singular present dinks, present participle dinkin, past dinkt, past participle dinkt)

1. to deck