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rinky-dink (adjective and noun) RING-kee-dingk
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Out-of-date, old-fashioned, insignificant, trite, cheap; an inferior person or thing.
The Commonwealth is not a rinky-dink little outfit that does not have much in the way of resources.
Respondent replied that the Montgomery County jail was "rinky-dink ," and that they could "break out."
US Supreme Court, Illinois v. Perkins, 496 U.S. 292 (1990), decided 4 June 1990.
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Their famous Martinis are a civilised, rinky-dink little size, coiled with lemon peel or a bobbing olive.
Yet ever since Fawlty Towers, this matchless town has been a byword for rinky-dink naffness.
Mr. Burgert, a 38-year-old who last made a living renting out snowmobiles here in this spectacularly beautiful nook of northwestern Montana, had a terror plan that made Osama bin Laden's look rinky-dink .
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