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This is not going to be some rinky-dink 80-minute sketch show. Jeff Conway, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 Daniel Kluger and Drew Levy’s sound design is magnificently unsubtle, and Kluger’s interstitial piano music is spot-on: vaguely period with the quality of being played on the side of the stage on a rinky-dink upright. Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024 The film starts in the characters’ present with Art and Patrick facing off at the 2019 Phil’s Tire Town Challenge in New Rochelle, N.Y., a surprisingly rinky-dink backdrop for all of the fraught flashbacks to come. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024 From the outside, Michigan Stadium looks rinky-dink, because three-quarters of it is below ground level. BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023 By comparison, the scene in Fort Lauderdale was rinky-dink. Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023 The movie casts Falk as a minor antagonist, a bulldog who was trying to keep MJ away from rinky-dink lil’ Nike. Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023 If your options always seem to be a heavy, bulky flashlight or a rinky-dink junk drawer gadget, take heed: the perfect happy medium does exist. Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2023

Word History

Etymology

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First Known Use

1913, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of rinky-dink was in 1913

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“Rinky-dink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rinky-dink. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.

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