1. [n]  a light shade of red
2. [n]  any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
3. [adj]  similar to the natural color of pinks
4. [v]  cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
5. [v]  make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"

Pink
A novel inspired by the deaths of Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix, written by the director of Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho . The narrator, a gay infomercial director named Spunky Davis, is writing a science fiction screenplay when two friends introduce him to an alternate reality called Pink, and claim that they are actually the alternate realities of Blake--a rock star friend of Davis`s who killed himself.

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1. \Pink\, n. [D. pink.] (Naut.)
   A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also {pinky}.
   --Sir W. Scott.
   {Pink stern} (Naut.), a narrow stern.
   

2. \Pink\, v. i. [D. pinken, pinkoogen, to blink, twinkle with
   the eyes.]
   To wink; to blink. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
   

3. \Pink\, a.
   Half-shut; winking. [Obs.] --Shak.
   

4. \Pink\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pinked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Pinking}.] [OE. pinken to prick, probably a nasalized form
   of pick.]
   1. To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth
      or paper, in small scallops or angles.
   2. To stab; to pierce as with a sword. --Addison.
   3. To choose; to cull; to pick out. [Obs.] --Herbert.
   

5. \Pink\, n.
   A stab. --Grose.
   

6. \Pink\, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the
   petals were picked out. Cf. {Pink}, v. t.]
   1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the
      caryophyllaceous genus {Dianthus}, and to their flowers,
      which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in
      cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial
      herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome
      five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
   2. A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red
      with more or less white; -- so called from the common
      color of the flower. --Dryden.
   3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection
      of something. ``The very pink of courtesy.'' --Shak.
   4. (Zo["o]l.) The European minnow; -- so called from the
      color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.]
   {Bunch pink} is {Dianthus barbatus}.
   {China}, or {Indian}, {pink}. See under {China}.
   {Clove pink} is {Dianthus Caryophyllus}, the stock from which
      carnations are derived.
   {Garden pink}. See {Pheasant's eye}.
   {Meadow pink} is applied to {Dianthus deltoides}; also, to
      the ragged robin.
   {Maiden pink}, {Dianthus deltoides}.
   {Moss pink}. See under {Moss}.
   {Pink needle}, the pin grass; -- so called from the long,
      tapering points of the carpels. See {Alfilaria}.
   {Sea pink}. See {Thrift}.
   

7. \Pink\, a.
   Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink
   (see 6th {Pink}, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
   {Pink eye} (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of
      ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of
      the eyeball.
   {Pink salt} (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of
      (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a
      mordant for madder and cochineal.
   {Pink saucer}, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is
      covered with a pink pigment.