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rinky-dink

[ ring-kee-dingk ]

adjective

  1. inconsequential, amateurish, or of generally inferior quality; small-time:

    a rinky-dink college; He plays with some rinky-dink team.

  2. outmoded or shabby; backward; antiquated:

    a rinky-dink airline.



noun

  1. a person or thing that is rinky-dink.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rinky-dink1

1910–15; rhyming compound (perhaps based on alteration and nasalization of rickety ); ricky-tick
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He had the hair and the rinky-dink scandals and that one cameo in Home Alone 2.

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They were rewarded with three works by Puccini, alongside Henry Mancini's rinky-dink Pink Panther theme, and the traditional programme of sea shanties and patriotic songs like Jerusalem and Rule, Britannia!

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They had me in the SS Mooch, which was a rinky-dink rowboat.

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The film starts in the characters’ present with Art and Patrick facing off at the 2019 Phil’s Tire Town Challenge in New Rochelle, N.Y., a surprisingly rinky-dink backdrop for all of the fraught flashbacks to come.

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The whole operation seems charmingly homespun, or, if you’re a reporter, annoyingly rinky-dink.

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