pink

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Noun

1. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
   • My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.
   • pink:
   • light pink:
2. Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
3. Pale red.
4. Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
   • This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.
5. A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
   • Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.
6. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
7. A huntsman.
8. One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
   • Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink.
9. An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
10. Alternative form of pinko.
11. The vagina or vulva.
12. A pink dye or pigment.
13. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of pink pigment.
14. Something, or a part of a thing, which is pink.

Adjective

1. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
2. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
3. Having conjunctivitis.
4. By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
5. Relating to women or girls.
   • pink-collar
   • pink job
6. Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
   • the pink economy
   • pink pound
   • pink dollar
   • pink triangle

Verb

1. To become pink in color, to redden.
2. To turn (something) pink.
3. To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.

Noun

1. A common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus0.
2. A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.

Noun

1. A narrow boat.

Verb

1. To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
2. To prick with a sword.
3. To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.

Noun

1. A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron. A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab. A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
2. A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.
3. A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.

Verb

1. Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
2. Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.

Verb

1. To wink; to blink.

Adjective

1. Half-shut; winking.

Noun

1. Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.

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