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'''Dink''' could refer to:

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==People==

The people who invented the word dink were three people named Kent, Dylan, and Charlie

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This has been heavily disputed by Chaz and Michael who claim to have used "Dink" ages before Kent, Dylan, or Charlie.

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==Things==

*[[Dink Scooter]], a scooter brand;

*"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.

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==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.

==Slang==

*An onomatopoeia for the sound when a [[golf]] ball goes in the hole.

*A ride given to someone on a [[pushbike]];

*A 'jerk' or 'goof'

*A euphemism for [[Wikisaurus:penis|dick]].

*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".

*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'.

*A derogatory racial slur referring to peoples of asian decent, Mainly used by U.S soldiers during the vietnam war to refer to North Vietnamese soldiers. Examples in popular culture, see- Platoon (1986) movie.

* '''D.I.N.K''': '''D'''ual '''I'''ncome '''N'''o '''K'''ids, a financial term used for couples with no kids.

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==See also==

*[[Dinky]]

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