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
Hayden Patriquin at times is a literal sorcerer on the court, hitting impossible half volleys and dinks from angles that are unhittable.
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Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Miami’s struggle with the run game suffocated the offense last season, forcing the Dolphins’ passing game to become a dink-and-dunk style offense since opposing safeties backed up further than usual to prevent the deep ball.
—Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2025
Here’s hoping your week is almost as satisfying as a winning dink.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
Woodbridge nickle-and-dimed its way to a 22-20 advantage, but Barkett had a dink, then an ace, and Woodbridge returned long.
—Martin Henderson, Orange County Register, 15 Mar. 2025
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Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Miami’s struggle with the run game suffocated the offense last season, forcing the Dolphins’ passing game to become a dink-and-dunk style offense since opposing safeties backed up further than usual to prevent the deep ball.
—Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2025
Here’s hoping your week is almost as satisfying as a winning dink.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
Woodbridge nickle-and-dimed its way to a 22-20 advantage, but Barkett had a dink, then an ace, and Woodbridge returned long.
—Martin Henderson, Orange County Register, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dink
Noun
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Roberts’s pet theory is the Major Questions Doctrine, known to Supreme Court nerds as MQD.—
Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
6 Nov. 2025
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Military history nerds will be pleased.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Suing public universities over athletic department records isn’t just the province of journalists and First Amendment geeks anymore.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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This is Disneyland for a certain type of poetry geek.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The weenie races will host heats of five dogs throughout the afternoon.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
11 Sep. 2025
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Through the years, the university signed marketing agreements with different hot dog suppliers, and that dictated which weenie went in the bun.—
Jennifer Stewart Kornegay,
Southern Living,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Dink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dink. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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