1. [n]  a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net
2. [n]  a couple who both have careers and no children

1. \Dink\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
   Trim; neat. [Scot.] --Burns. -- {Dink"ly}, adv.
   

2. \Dink\, v. t.
   To deck; -- often with out or up. [Scot.]
   

/dink/ Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with - sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32 bit architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream "dinky", which isn't sufficiently pejorative.

See macdink.

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