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rinky-dink
[ring-kee-dingk]
adjective
inconsequential, amateurish, or of generally inferior quality; small-time.
a rinky-dink college; He plays with some rinky-dink team.
outmoded or shabby; backward; antiquated.
a rinky-dink airline.
noun
a person or thing that is rinky-dink.
Word History and Origins
Origin of rinky-dink1
Example Sentences
He had the hair and the rinky-dink scandals and that one cameo in Home Alone 2.
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!
They had me in the SS Mooch, which was a rinky-dink rowboat.
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.
The whole operation seems charmingly homespun, or, if you’re a reporter, annoyingly rinky-dink.
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