dink : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dink	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for dink
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
DINK n a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids) a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net Synonym(s): drop shot, dink
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dink \Dink\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Trim; neat. [Scot.] --Burns. -- {Dink"ly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dink \Dink\, v. t. To deck; -- often with out or up. [Scot.]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
dink /dink/ adj. Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with -- sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32-bit architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream `dinky', which isn't sufficiently pejorative. See {macdink}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
dink /dink/ Said of a machine that has the {bitty box} nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with - sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an {MIT} hacker working on a {CP/M} system with 64K, in reference to any {6502} system, then from fans of 32 bit architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream "dinky", which isn't sufficiently pejorative. See {macdink}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-31)