Dink
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Dink may refer to:
People
- Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian editor and journalist.
- Dink is the ring name used by midget wrestler Claude Giroux (wrestler) while competing in the World Wrestling Federation during the mid-1990s.
Things
- "A small auxiliary boat affixed to a sailboat, also known as a dinghy;
- Dinky Toy, an early manufacturer of small, die-cast toy cars. This is now sometimes genericized into the reference "Dink" referring to Hot Wheels and other brands of similar toy cars.
- DINK was the name of an American industrial rock band.
In fiction
- Dink, the Little Dinosaur, a children's animated series broadcast in the United States in the 1980s.
- A group of munchkin-like characters in red robes in the 1987 movie Spaceballs.
- Dink Smallwood, the name of a PC RPG made in 1997 and is also the name of the main character.
- Dink Meeker, a character in the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card.
- Dink (James Bond), a woman in the James Bond film Goldfinger.
Slang
- D.I.N.K: Dual Income No Kids, a financial term used for couples with no kids.
- A 'jerk' or 'goof'
- A euphemism for being delinquent on training.
- A hypocorism for the given name Dennis.
- A term used to mean "Mess With" as in "I'm going to dink with that until it works". Along similar lines, in computer science, to increment or decrement a counter. "In counting from 4 to 6, it dinks the counter two times".
- An onomatopoeia for the sound when a golf ball goes in the hole.
- A ride given to someone on a pushbike;
- A word in beach volleyball lingo referring to a soft attacking shot travelling in an arc at low velocity. A dink in this context is usually strategically directed away from the reach of the blocker and the non-blocking defender. A beach volleyball dink is also known as a 'roll-shot'.
- To stare at another person intently with sexual desire.
- A penis.
- Military slang for a recruit in training, "Desperately In Need of Knowledge"