n (color) A colour between red and white; pale red.
n Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
n (dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
n Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
n (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
n (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
n (slang) The vagina or vulva.
adj Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
adj Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
adj Having conjunctivitis.
adj (obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.
adj (informal) Relating to women or girls.
adj (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
v (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
v (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
v (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
n (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
n (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
n (now obsolete) A narrow boat.
v To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
v To prick with a sword.
v To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
n (obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.
n (obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.
n (obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
v Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
v Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
v (obsolete) To wink; to blink.
adj (obsolete) Half-shut; winking.
n (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
n A surname.
n (slang, derogatory, dated) An operative of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
n Alternative form of pinko [(informal, often derogatory, chiefly US) A socialist, particularly one who is not wholly communist.]