Used in a Sentence

dink

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dink.

Editorial note

This, obviously, was on some rinky dink locked down 6 years old PC used by back-office low-ranking clerical staff...

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dink gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

(tennis) A soft drop shot.

noun

(pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dink.

noun

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

noun

(tennis) A soft drop shot.

noun

(pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.

noun

(soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot

Example sentences

1

This, obviously, was on some rinky dink locked down 6 years old PC used by back-office low-ranking clerical staff...

2

Yes because Apple chooses all the ship dates for their OS updates based on rinky-dink legal cases.

3

Ones who want to dink around with references and confirming employment history have proved to be wishy-washy and overly cautious in everything.

4

Just on a couple of rinky dink side projects with babel & webpack!

5

Seems highly unlikely they've got lots of features just waiting on a post from a rinky-dink tech blog to incite them to launch.

6

I dink around in SEO a lot because I find it fascinating, fun and occasionally profitable.

7

The big problem is the rinky dink Excel macros, VBA/COM+ add-ins, and random isolate single developer crap that nobody knows about except the end users.

8

The video card looked like a shrinky dink.

9

And I downvoted you here, because you were extrapolating your personal feelings to the market at large and kind of being a dink about it.

10

Why would a Dev come work for your (figuratively) rinky-dink startup for likely less money and likely worthless equity (statistically speaking) when they could walk down the street and work for any number of successful companies?

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My personal experience is that I can dink around with a new technology all I want, and not learn half as much as when I'm trying to apply it to do something real.

Quote examples

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WolframAlpha, Cuil, and Search Wikia got a lot more press than just from "rinky-dink[y] tech blog[s]."

2

The WaPo article is 35MB now, and they just played a little "dink" sound, I'm guessing to try to catch my attention and get me to come back to...

3

I like the irony of the Paul Miller quote from the first article: “I like to dink around in Terminal, accomplishing nothing, but at least knowing that I’m engaging the computer on my own terms, with no buffer."

4

If the perception can be changed so that "serious" science with big donors is always published openly and only rinky-dink "school" science is published behind paywalls because it's just "publish or perish" schlock it will be a huge win.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dink in a sentence?

This, obviously, was on some rinky dink locked down 6 years old PC used by back-office low-ranking clerical staff...

What does dink mean?

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

What part of speech is dink?

dink is commonly used as noun.