dink

verb6

1. •
   To play a soft drop shot.
2. •
   To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
3. •
   To strike the ball gently.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   (Australia, informal) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.

   • I didn't like them at all ; only the lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle. — 1947
6. •
   (slang) To land a non-lethal headshot on.

noun9

1. •
   A soft drop shot.

   • 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.’ — 2018
2. •
   A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
3. •
   A light chip; a chipped pass or shot

   • The forward passed to Fernandes and, as Pau López advanced, the Portuguese fashioned a sand‑wedge dink over the goalkeeper. — 2021
4. •
   (informal, slang) A foolish or contemptible person.

   • […]he was a dink, and all the money, fame, and power in the world wouldn't change that one simple fact. — 1997
5. •
   (informal, slang) The penis.

   • The hair on my legs is softer than the hair around my dink, but it still grosses me out. — 2004
6. •
   (slang, offensive) A Vietnamese person.

   • 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. — 1989
7. •
   (Australia, informal) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.

   • I gave him a dink on my bike.
8. •
   (Australia, Northern-England) Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
9. •
   (old-fashioned, historical) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.

adjective3

1. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) Honest, fair, true.
2. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.
3. •
   (dialect, no longer used) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

adverb1

1. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) Honestly, truly.

   • Are you The Banjo? Fair dink no bull? Oh, sorry, lady, I mean ... dinki-di? — 2006

noun[before a noun]1

1. •
   Acronym of double income, no kids or dual income, no kids: a childless couple with two jobs and thus two incomes.

   • Homer "It was a wonderful time. We were living the DINK life." Lisa "Dink?" Homer: "DINK: Dual income, no kids." Lisa: "Oh, DINK." — 2018