dink
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Is dink a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (tennis) A soft drop shot.Examples: "But what I saw is she still has that sense of, ‘Okay, I need to hit a dink shot, I need to come with power now, I need to change up my serve not for a flat one, but a big kick.’"
2. (pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
3. (soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shotExamples: "The forward passed to Fernandes and, as Pau López advanced, the Portuguese fashioned a sand‑wedge dink over the goalkeeper."
verb (English)
1. (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
2. (pickleball) To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
3. (cricket) To strike the ball gently.
4. (soccer) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.Examples: "The forward dinked the ball over the goalkeeper to score his first goal of the season."; "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."; "A dinked pass intended for De Bruyne from the impressive Oscar Bobb then deflected off Jackson and looped into the net early in the second half before Foden smashed in his second."
5. (video games, slang, transitive) To land a non-lethal headshot on.Synonyms: gooshslangtransitive
noun (English)
1. (Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.Examples: "I gave him a dink on my bike."Australiacolloquial
verb (English)
1. (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.Examples: "I didn't like them at all ; only the lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle."Australiacolloquial
noun (English)
1. (US, military slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) A Vietnamese person.Examples: "Our job was to go out on night patrols and stay behind to zap any dinks we caught sneaking back to their holes at dawn."; "ABRAMS: [...] The term 'dink' or 'slope' or that sort of thing starts out calling the enemy that, and he's Vietnamese, the same as these, so then the next thing is all Vietnamese, call them that. It's just a bad thing. And I'm sure a great many who use it don't use it intentionally to offend, but there's no question but what it does. [...]"Synonyms: gookUSdatedderogatoryethnicslangslur
noun (English)
1. (US, Australia) Acronym of double income no kids.AustraliaUSabbreviationacronymalt-of
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Definition source: Wiktionary