Dink

/dɪŋk/ · noun

Meaning

(tennis) A soft drop shot..

Definitions by Sense

1. (tennis) A soft drop shot.
2. (pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
3. (soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
4. (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
5. (pickleball) To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
6. (cricket) To strike the ball gently.
7. (soccer) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
8. (video games, slang, transitive) To land a non-lethal headshot on.

Example Sentences

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.’

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

The forward dinked the ball over the goalkeeper to score his first goal of the season.

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.

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.

I gave him a dink on my bike.

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

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.

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• dinks
• dinking
• dinked

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