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rinky-dink, n. and a. slang (chiefly U.S.).|ˈrɪŋkɪdɪŋk|
Also rinkey-dink, rinkydink, rinky-dinky.
[Orig. unknown: cf. ricky-tick n. and a.]
A. n. Something that is worn out or antiquated; a worthless object. spec. a cheap place of entertainment. Also in phr. to give (someone) the rinky-dink and varr., to cheat or swindle (someone).
1912A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. xii. 265 They was lyin'..an' givin' each other th' rinkey-dink in th' old days same as now. 1922J. A. Dunn Man Trap i. 8 Jimmy abhorred mining corporations with a lot of stockholders and a few of those liable at any moment to hand you the rinky-dink and freeze you out by due process of legal indifference toward small-fry claimants. 1942Harper's Bazaar July 21/2 Don't give me the rinkydink. 1951Atlantic Monthly Mar. 80/1, I think of Sweet Mama Stringbean as she was called when she played the Rinky-dinks for $25 a week. 1956S. Longstreet Real Jazz 147 Rinky-dink is broken-down stuff. 1969New Yorker 1 Nov. 6/2 Red Garter..eighteen-nineties rinky-dink, complete with fire engine, but the banjo band is above average. 1977Amer. Speech 1975 L. 65 Rinky-dink..n, something that is cheap or worn out. ‘His car is a real rinky-dink.’
B. adj. Worthless, worn out, trivial; old-fashioned, outmoded.
1913Wells Fargo Messenger I. 105/3 She did not care to ruin her life as a Sunday supplement feature to some rinky-dinky foreign count. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §675/12 Baseball... Rinky-dink ball, inferior playing. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues vii. 87 My struggle-buggy was getting to look like a rinky-dink old tin can on wheels. 1951E. Waters His Eye is on Sparrow vi. 77 Of all those rinky-dink dumps I played, nothing was worse than the Monogram Theatre in Chicago. 1973Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 Sept. 5/3 He thinks it hasn't been legalized only because of ‘rinkydink politics’ but he decries other aspects of the drug scene and says he thinks he's kept some of his young patients from getting involved. 1979Fortune 15 Jan. 5 Facet [was]..a rinky-dink outfit with no real resources and not much to offer. |