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Definition of be rinky-dink
rinky-dink
adjective
- easy or unchallenging.
Their high school courses are rinky-dink.
- See more words with the same meaning: easy, simple.
Last edited on May 19 1998. Submitted by Alida Johnson from Tennessee, USA on May 19 1998.
- of poor quality; CHEAP.
Hondas, when they were first manufactured, were pretty rinky-dink cars.
- See more words with the same meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing.
Last edited on Dec 11 1999. Submitted by Harry R. from Morganville, NJ, USA on Dec 11 1999.
- small.
I couldn't stand being in that rinky-dink town any longer.
- See more words with the same meaning: small.
Last edited on Dec 11 1999. Submitted by Harry R. from Morganville, NJ, USA on Dec 11 1999.
- clumsy and amateurish in operation, in reference to a small-scale business or organization with limited resources.
There is a rinky-dink one-plane airstrip near our house.
- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
- See more words with the same meaning: small.
Last edited on Dec 11 1999. Submitted by Harry R. from Morganville, NJ, USA on Dec 11 1999.
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