pink

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.

   My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.

2. 2
   noun

   Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

   This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.

3. 3
   noun

   A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.

   Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.

4. 4
   noun

   Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.

   I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘in pink’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats.

5. 5
   noun

   A huntsman.

   The pinks stand about the inn-door lighting cigars and waiting to see us start, while their hacks are led up and down the market-place, on which the inn looks.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   Alternative form of pinko.

   My own guess is that there are some pinks in the State Department and in other government departments and agencies, and of course they should be found and ousted; but it seems to me that this can be done without besmirching innocent people and without making such broadside charges that people will lose faith in all government.

8. 8
   noun

   The vagina or vulva.

   Then Eddie did what he calls, 'Two in the pink, one in the stink.' “I held up my right forefinger and middle finger and said, “Two.” Then I held up my ring finger and said “One. Two in the pussy, one in the ass.”

Etymology

* As an English surname, from Old English pinca (“chaffinch”). This would not be a native Germanic inheritance as the expected form would be finc, thus probably borrowed or contaminated from Vulgar Latin *pincio (see French pinson) and its related parallels. * Also as an English surname, from rare Middle English pink (“something small”), presumably related to pinkie. * As a German occupational surname for a blacksmith, from imitative pink(e)pank, after the sound of hammering. * As a Lower Sorbian surname, variant of Pjeńk, see Penk.