gink

American  

[gingk] / gɪŋk /

noun

Slang: Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a person; fellow.

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gink ¹ British  

/ ɡɪŋk /

noun

1. slang a man or boy, esp one considered to be odd

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gink ² British  

/ ɡɪŋk /

noun

1. a look, especially a brief one, at somethinɡ

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Etymology

Origin of gink

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; origin uncertain

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Example Sentences

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gink

This gypsum gink or hillside hoopus—whatever its name might be—had soft black fur girdled with white, and white cuffs above its paws.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, you are a funny sort of gink in lots of ways, my little man.

From Dave Dawson at Casablanca by Robert Sydney Bowen

The scissors artist who revises my pink-plus locks is a gray-haired old gink who'd never been nearer Berlin than First Avenue.

From Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

The Reverend Percy turns out to be kind of a solemn, serious-minded gink.

From Torchy, Private Sec. by F. Foster Lincoln

And keep your lamps rolling on the old gink and he'll raise your salary once a month.

From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball

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