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

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

The second "gink" was a big flabby-looking "duck," and when he had descended quietly the detective had no difficulty in finding out that the man was registered at the hotel as John Harrington.

From Every Man for Himself by Moorhouse, Hopkins

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 Brown, Arthur William

Why, I knew of a couple who named their three girls after parlor-cars; and a gink in Brooklyn who called one of his boys Prospect, after the park.

From The House of Torchy by Brown, Arthur William

Some gink in town told me he was a famous ace.

From Aces Up by Clarke, Covington