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dink

1 8.9

A soft gentle hit that makes the ball drop short after crossing the net

noun
/dɪŋk/

Jargon

: dejada

He mastered the technique of the dink to place the ball just over the net.

Examples

And it was one of those 'dink and dunk' passes that, while somewhat maligned, were Ponder's bread and butter early on in the season.

Blog text (29)
- He don't want to ball the dink.

Casualties of War (1989)
The rounds are ripping off and you're just hearing dink, dink, dink, dink, dink on the my first.
Begeron closes, dinks and scores.

Manchester by the Sea (2016)
A more typical passage of play is pinging pretty, but ultimately hopeless, balls to the opposite wing or resorting to the easy dink to Simms in the middle.

Blog text (29)
During the match, she executed a perfect dink shot that caught her opponent off guard.
The player won the point with a clever dink that dropped just inside the line.

Synonyms

drop shot

vsdink

Specialized

1 3.8

A soft shot in tennis that lands just over the net and drops quickly, hard to reach

focuses on gentle touch that makes the ball fall quickly and short

Antonyms

to smash

50 3.3

To hit something with great force, often in sport

to drive

36 3.5

To hit a ball hard to make it go far

Compounds

double-dink

Jargon

9.8

A scoring play in a game where a player or team scores twice in one match

How Soft

dink

Jargon

1 8.9

drop shot

Specialized

1 3.8

lob

10 4.4

drive

50 5.1

to smash

50 3.3

Surface Forms

dink singular

dinks plural

Etymology

Dink probably comes from the small, sharp sound 'dink' something makes when it is tapped, so in sport a dink is a soft, gentle hit that makes the ball drop quickly after the net.