Rinky-dink

Quick meaning: Rinky-dink is a noun meaning (countable) A person who is contemptible or insignificant.

Meaning

(countable) A person who is contemptible or insignificant.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Something that is not up to acceptable standards; something of low quality.
2. (countable) A miscellaneous object or thing; a thingy.
3. (uncountable, music) Alternative form of rinky-tink (“a tinkling, tinny style of music; honky-tonk”).
4. Of poor quality; amateurish, shoddy, small-time.
5. Old-fashioned, tired; also, shabby, worn-out.
6. Crooked, dishonest, underhanded.
7. (archaic, uncountable) Deceptive or underhanded rigmarole; deception, trickery; (countable) often preceded by the: an instance of this; a deception, swindle, a trick.

Example Sentences

But when we start getting really into the "rinky-dinks" of this thing is when we get over here in the columns.

Soon afterward, the federal government, in effect, outlawed the rinky-dinks by adopting minimum-strength standards.

Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. She was our angel.

Coco was definitely a fifties person, not even in the same ballpark as the truly liberated young girls who let their children run barefoot and bareass through the park with their little pink rinky-dinks bobbing up and down.

Word Forms

• rinky-dinks
• rinky-dinky

Synonyms for rinky-dink

Depending on context, synonyms include widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie.

Antonyms for rinky-dink

Common opposites include chic, sassy, cool, done, elegant, fashionable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fink, ratfink, crud, runt, rotter, dicksplash.

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