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twink
noun- an effeminate, young, handsome homosexual male US
- — Current Slang, p. 13, Spring 1968
- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 61, 1972
- Where are the twinks, anyway? They usually have the decency to provide one or two decorative twinks... Jesus, who needs to waste a night staring at these tired old Gucci queens. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 300, 1978
- — Tom Hibbert, Rockspeak!, p. 164, 1983
- — Michael V. Anderson, The Bad, Rad, Not to Forget Way Cool Beach and Surf Discriptionary, p. 21, 1988
- Chris said, “Yeah, the twink comes up to the table, says he’s gonna be our waitperson.” — Elmore Leonard, Freaky Deaky, p. 10, 1988
- a new military recruit US
- But most of the lifers had never seen ‘Nam and most of the twinks – the new recruits – had little idea of where they were going and none whatever about what would become of them when they got there. — Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller, Charlie Company, p. 32, 1983
- a coward US
- Rafi comes on strong, but he’s a twink at heart, he caves in. — Elmore Leonard, Cat Chaser, p. 160, 1982
- a moment, the merest measure of time UK, 1754
Originally, “a wink of the eye”, a “twinkling”. - I shan’t be two twinks. — Beale, 1984
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