as in nerd
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits
in those days a dink had a better chance of winning the lottery than of dating a cheerleader
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No commitment or consistency in the run game, a lot of dink dink passes with no real commitment to the long game.
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Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
In pickleball, there is a shot called the dink.
—Caira Conner, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
One of the game’s biggest weapons is a soft knuckler that barely clears the net and is known as the dink.
—Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
Dink and dunk and dink some more.
—Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2021
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Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
In pickleball, there is a shot called the dink.
—Caira Conner, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
One of the game’s biggest weapons is a soft knuckler that barely clears the net and is known as the dink.
—Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
Dink and dunk and dink some more.
—Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2021
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“Dink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dink. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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