pink
/ˈpɪŋk/ noun A2- A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers. · My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.
- Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- Pale red.
- Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations. · This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.
- A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality. · Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- A huntsman.
- 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.
Plural pinks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A soft pink crept over her cheek, and her eyes were kind and frank.
Theo’s to tell her to use mauve insertion instead of pink.
He says yer told him not to send ’round no more pink notes nor come hangin’ over de garden gate, and he takes dis means of puttin’ yer wise.
Tell him I saw him and Miss Ashburton beneath the pink oleander.
Other matches
- pink Having a colour between red and white A1
- pink To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by ad... C2
- pink Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise,... C2
- pink A common minnow C2
- pink To become pink in color, to redden. C2
- pink Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow,... C2
- pink up Of a transplanted organ: to acquire a pinkish h...
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