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rinky-dink
rinky-dink, n. and a. slang (chiefly U.S.). (ˈrɪŋkɪdɪŋk) Also rinkey-dink, rinkydink, rinky-dinky. [Orig. unknown: cf. ricky-tick n. and a.] A. n. Something that is worn out or antiquated; a worthless object. spec. a cheap place of entertainment. Also in phr. to give (someone) the rinky-dink and var...
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Rinky Dink
Rinky Dink may refer to: "Rinky Dink" (instrumental), a 1962 hit co-written and performed by Dave "Baby" Cortez Rinky Dink (sound system), a mobile musical sound system powered by two bicycles and solar panels The Rinky Dinks, the credited (fictitious) performers, due to legal issues, of the song "E...
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rinky-dink
rinky-dinkAmerican, informalnot important or of bad quality. We drove into a rinky-dink town in rural Pennsylvania. (always before noun) This isn't rinky-dink stuff - it's high quality furniture.
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Rinky Dink (instrumental)
"Rinky Dink" is an instrumental written by Dave "Baby" Cortez and Paul Winley and performed by Cortez. It reached #9 on the U.S. R&B chart and #10 on the U.S. pop chart in 1962. It was featured on his 1962 album Rinky Dink. In Canada the song reached #6. The song ranked #59 on Billboard magazine's T...
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18 hours ago — The NBA brought the moderately whelming delights of its All-Star weekend this season to Indianapolis, North America's 42nd-ranked ...
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Rinky Dink (sound system)
The system was named after the American slang expression "rinky-dink", which originally meant "rip-off", but came to mean anything that was poorly put
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ricky-tick
ricky-tick, n. and a. slang (chiefly U.S.). (ˌrɪkɪˈtɪk) [Imitative.] A. n. An even, repetitive, or monotonous rhythm, as in early jazz; old-fashioned ‘straight’ jazz or ragtime. B. adj. Of musical rhythm or tempo: even, repetitive, monotonous; of music: trite, old-fashioned, ‘corny’. Also transf. an...
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Beverley Atonale
Chicago Reader wrote that "the young quartet's reach [exceeded] their grasp: aiming for the orchestral splendor of 60s pop, they got a handful of flat, rinky-dink
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Howard Waitzkin
Rinky-Dink Revolution: Moving Beyond Capitalism by Withholding Consent, Creative Constructions, and Creative Destructions. Daraja Press. 2020.
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Sheath (album)
Joshua Klein of Billboard said, "The drum machines sound delightfully (if deceptively) rinky-dink, and the absence of vocalists keeps the focus on the
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STS-4
Mattingly, who was an active-duty naval officer, later described the classified payload – two sensors for detecting missile launches – as a "rinky-dink
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Two Gentlemen
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"The Cheech Wizard Meets Baby Ultraman In The Cool Blue Cave (Short Stories About Birds, Trees And The Sports Life Wherever You Are)" – 5:48
"Rinky-Dink
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Everybody Plays the Fool
David Fricke from Rolling Stone described the song as a "rinky-dink reggae cover".
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Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
Aesthetically, they were aiming to combine that rinky-dink model train set quality with a hand-tinted postcard look.
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Senior Service (song)
Mason described it as "the epitome of Costello's early angry young man phase", noting that the "juvenile spite" coming from "the deliberately ridiculous rinky-dink
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