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dinky
noun- an expensive car UK, 1980
Wealthy humour, based on Dinky Toys. - — Ann Barr and Peter York, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, p. 158, 1982
- an old, dilapidated car TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1986
From the older, more common meaning (a kite). - — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- an electric tram with controls at each end US, 1923
- For Winnipeg’s “dinkies,” no turn-around or loop was required at the end of the line. The driver just changed the overhead electrical contact to the other end, and moved to the driver’s seat there. — Chris Thain, Cold as a Bay Street Banker’s Heart, p. 53, 1987
- a small railway engine used for yard switching US, 1905
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 262, 1946
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 45, 1977
- the penis US
- “They start to pressing him, grabbing at his dinky.” — Charles Perry, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, p. 203, 1962
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