Definition of "dink"

But what I saw is she still has that sense of, ‘Okay, I need to hit a dink shot, I need to come with power now, I need to change up my serve not for a flat one, but a big kick.’

2018 February 12, Ava Wallace, “New mother Serena Williams returns to tennis, with a little rust and plenty to learn”, in Washington Post‎

The forward passed to Fernandes and, as Pau López advanced, the Portuguese fashioned a sand‑wedge dink over the goalkeeper.

2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian‎

But the visitors started the game in stunning fashion when Morten Gamst Pedersen dinked forward a clever looping pass and Kalinic beat the offside trap, surged into the box and beautifully placed the ball past goalkeeper Scott Carson.

2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC‎

A dinked pass intended for De Bruyne from the impressive Oscar Bobb then deflected off Jackson and looped into the net early in the second half before Foden smashed in his second.

2024 January 7, Gary Rose, “Manchester City 5-0 Huddersfield Town”, in BBC Sport‎

I didn't like them at all ; only the lame one who used to let me dink him home on his bicycle.

1947, John Lehmann, editor, The Penguin New Writing, number 30, page 103

Our job was to go out on night patrols and stay behind to zap any dinks we caught sneaking back to their holes at dawn.

1989, Craig Roberts, Charles W. Sasser, The Walking Dead: A Marine's Story of Vietnam, page 197

Are you The Banjo? Fair dink no bull? Oh, sorry, lady, I mean ... dinki-di?

2006, Pip Wilson, Face in the Street, page 323

The hair on my legs is softer than the hair around my dink, but it still grosses me out.

2004, Brian Francis, Fruit: A Novel about a Boy and his Nipples, page 2

[…] he was a dink, and all the money, fame, and power in the world wouldn't change that one simple fact.

1997, Chris Gudgeon, You’re Not as Good as You Think, page 13

All these floated along with the immense tide of population, whom mere curiosity had drawn together; and where the mechanic in his leathern apron, elbowed the dink and dainty dame, his city mistress […]

1821, Walter Scott, Kenilworth, page 249