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dink

1  [dingk]
–noun
dinghy.
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Origin:
1900–05; by apocope and devoicing

dink

2  [dingk]
–noun
Tennis, Volleyball. a softly hit ball that falls just over the net.
Origin:
1935–40; imit., prob. influenced by dinky

dink

3  [dingk]
–noun Slang: Disparaging.
an Asian, esp. a Vietnamese.
Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; cf. Australian slang dink Chinese person; perh. back formation from dinky, reinforced by rhyme with Chink

dink

4  [dingk]
–noun
Informal. either partner of a married couple having two incomes and no children.
Origin:
1985–90; d(ouble) i(ncome), n(o) k(ids)
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dink 1   (dĭngk)   
n.   Sports
A drop shot.

[From dink, sound of a weakly hit or dropped ball.]
dink 2   (dĭngk)   
n.   Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a North Vietnamese soldier or guerrilla in the Vietnam War.

[Origin unknown.]
DINK or dink   (dĭnk)   
n.  

  1. A two-career couple with no children.

  2. A member of such a couple.


[D(ual) I(ncome) N(o) K(ids).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
dink

  1. n.
    a person of East Asian (including Japanese) nationality or decent; originally a person of Chinese nationality or descent. (Much used during the Vietnam War for the Vietnamese. Rude and derogatory.) : He said he fought against dinks in the war.
  2. n. n.
    the penis, especially a small one. (Usually objectionable.) : God, Fred, you really got a dink. Is it full grown yet?
  3. n.
    and DINK. double income, no kids; a (young) married couple with two incomes and no children. (Acronym.) : The whole neighborhood is populated by dinks. Not a single child on the block.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

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.
[The Jargon File]
(1994-10-31)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
DINK
double income, no kids
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
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