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

Besides, he seems like such a good-natured, well meanin' gink that I lets him run on, clear to 42d-st.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Sewell Ford

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

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 Hopkins Moorhouse

Sure enough too, we finds the door beyond the teller's window, also the gink in the gray helmet.

From Torchy, Private Sec. by F. Foster Lincoln