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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Recent Examples of dink
At age 69, Lynn Ianni is a pickleball whiz, zipping from dinks to drives energetically.
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Graham Kates,
CBS News,
9 Mar. 2026
Knowing their dink would be praised.
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Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
25 Jan. 2026
But as defenses have found ways to slow him down and some of the Kansas City QB’s key contributors have moved on or gotten older, the Chiefs offense has transitioned into more of a dink-and-dunk operation.
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Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
The underground pop of the 2010s used to get so excited about being online, using shrinky-dink artifice to delight in poking fun at a culture that could feel shallow and strange but also organic and endlessly renewable.
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Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2025
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Graham Kates,
CBS News,
9 Mar. 2026
Knowing their dink would be praised.
—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
25 Jan. 2026
But as defenses have found ways to slow him down and some of the Kansas City QB’s key contributors have moved on or gotten older, the Chiefs offense has transitioned into more of a dink-and-dunk operation.
—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
The underground pop of the 2010s used to get so excited about being online, using shrinky-dink artifice to delight in poking fun at a culture that could feel shallow and strange but also organic and endlessly renewable.
—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dink
Noun
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In the film, the villain is not the Harvard nerds who initially shun Elle, but the ex-boyfriend who never saw her as anything more than a cardboard cutout of a girl with blonde hair and big boobs.
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Hunter Pence, a nerd at heart, spent money from his first paycheck to buy himself a gaming computer to play World of Warcraft.
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The weekend-afternoon sales events became a phenomenon, drawing crowds to marvel at his wide-ranging tastes — not just hardcore music geeks or bibliophiles, but appreciators of New York cultural lore.
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By now, however, most know him as the lovable, cello-playing geek Leonard Hofstadter who married the pretty blonde waitress.
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Rowland’s sense of playfulness is also more evident in the artwork chosen for the space (subjects include a spa bathrobe in the common area and a weenie roast above the coffee condiments).
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López-Alt shared a recipe from a Kentucky friend who puts cocktail weenies in a slow cooker with a cup of ketchup, a cup of brown sugar, and a cup of bourbon before a party.
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“Dink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dink. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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