dink

Meanings

Noun

• A soft drop shot.
• A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
• A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
• A North Vietnamese soldier.
• Double Income No Kids - a childless couple with two jobs.
• Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
• A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.
• A penis.
• A foolish person, a despised person.

Verb

• To play a soft drop shot.
• To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
• To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.

Adjective

• Honest, fair, true.
• Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.
• Finely dressed, elegant; neat.
• Alternate spelling of dinq

Adverb

• Honestly, truly.

Origin

• Imitative. Originally US. Attested since the 1930s.
• Origin unknown. Attested since the 1930s.
• Origin unknown. Attested since the 1960s. Compare Chink, a derogatory term for a Chinese person.
• Initialism. Originally US. Attested since the 1980s.
• See dinkum.
• Origin unknown. Attested since the late nineteenth century.
• Origin unknown. Attested in English and in Scots since the sixteenth century.
• See dinq.