Gink
[gingk] /gɪŋk/
noun, Slang: Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.
1.
a person; fellow.
/ɡɪŋk/
noun
1.
(slang) a man or boy, esp one considered to be odd
/ɡɪŋk/
noun (NZ, informal)
1.
a look, especially a brief one, at somethinɡ
noun
[1908+; origin unknown; perhaps somehow fr Turkish, ”catamite, punk,” found in early 1800s sources, both British and US]
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