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from the ones which invite dinking?
Father Steve (but anyone else can reply),
You use the word dinking in your post with a meaning that is unfamiliar to me. Until a few minutes ago, for me the word 'dink' had only one meaning - a slang verb meaning to carry a passenger on a bicycle (push-bike, not motorbike) or a noun describing the same activity ("Can you give me a dink?"). I discovered to my surprise a plethora of meanings in online dictionaries, (noun, verb and adjective, slang and non-slang) including dinghy, drop shot, rival gang member, trim/neat, to deck, dodgy, penis, Dual-Income-No-Kids acronym, and possibly more, but none which seem to fit your context.
So my questions are:
1. Are you familiar with the bicycle-ride dink? (I'm wondering how widespread that slang usage is).
2. Can you comment on your usage (presumably meaning to alter) and its origin?
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