dink

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
DINK
    n 1: a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym
         for dual income no kids)
    2: a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after
       crossing the net [syn: {drop shot}, {dink}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dink \dink\, n. (Tennis)
   a ball hit softly that falls to the ground just beyond the
   net.
   [PJC]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dink \dink\, n.
   an Asian person, especially a Vietnamese; -- used
   contemptuously, considered disparaging and offensive. [U.S.
   slang]

   Syn: slant, slope. [PJC]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dink \Dink\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
   Trim; neat. [Scot.] --Burns. -- {Dink"ly}, adv.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dink \dink\, v. t.
   To deck; -- often with out or up. [Scot.]
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dink \dink\, n. [ca. 1985, acronym from double income no kids.]
   either of a married couple who both are employed and have no
   children. The term is often used as the prototype of
   midde-class persons with higher-than-average disposable
   income.
   [PJC]
from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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 (8 July 2008)
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)
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