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'''Dink''' may refer to:
==People==
*[[Hrant Dink]], a [[Turkish-Armenian]] [[Copy editing|editor]] and [[journalist]].
*'''Dink''' is the ring name used by midget wrestler [[Claude Giroux (wrestler)]] while competing in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|World Wrestling Federation]] during the mid-1990s.
*Mr. Dink, a character on the [[Nickelodeon]] television series ''[[Doug]]''.
==Things==
*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 (band)]], an American industrial rock band.
==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 (film)|Goldfinger]].
==Slang==
* [[DINKY|'''D.I.N.K''': '''D'''ual '''I'''ncome '''N'''o '''K'''ids]], 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]].
*Military slang for a recruit in training, "Desperately In Need of Knowledge"
==See also==
*[[Dinky]]
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