Dink may refer to:

People

• Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian editor and journalist.
• Dink is the ring name used by midget wrestler Claude Giroux (wrestler) while competing in the World Wrestling Federation during the mid-1990s.
• Mr. Dink, a character on the Nickelodeon television series Doug.

Things

• A cubicle-style desk, designed for individual study and found in many libraries.
• 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.
• DINK was the name of an American industrial rock band.
• A type of one-handed hit in beach volleyball and wallyball referring to a soft attacking shot in which the ball falls within a couple feet of the net. A dink 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'. Open handed dinking in wallyball is not allowed.

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.
• Dink (James Bond), a woman in the James Bond film Goldfinger.

Slang

• D.I.N.K: Dual Income No Kids, a financial term used for couples with no kids.
• A 'jerk' or 'goof'
• A euphemism for being delinquent on training.
• 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".
• An onomatopoeia for the sound when a golf ball goes in the hole.
• A ride given to someone on a pushbike.
• A penis.
• Military slang for a recruit in training, "Desperately In Need of Knowledge"
• gook

See also

• Dinky

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Dink". Image Credit.

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