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

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

“A few more good pulls an’ we’ll have the old gink where we want it.”

From Eagles of the Sky With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes by Ambrose Newcomb

"Imagine my Mary, married to a gink like that!"

From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer

Just then Ferguson rides up with a English gink who's a friend of Mr. Van's, 'n' the dame beats it into the club-house.

From Blister Jones by Jay Hambridge

We finds him rolled up in quilts on an old sofa that the folks had shoved up in front of the stove—a slim, nervous-lookin' young gink with sandy hair and a peaked nose.

From The House of Torchy by Arthur William Brown