rinky-dink

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An amateur or someone who is underqualified.

   “The point is that SCUBA diving is not for "rinky-dinks" ; it is for well trained people only, and then only in the company of other experienced divers.”

2. isim Someone who operates unethically; specifically, a small-time conman or crook.

   “In addition to such creeps, there is also found in various organizations an assortment of longhairs, corny antiques, arky back-numbers, moldy mossbacks, rinky-dinks, tintypes, schmoes and schmaltzes of all flavors.”

3. isim Something that is not up to acceptable standards; something of low quality.

   “But when we start getting really into the "rinky-dinks" of this thing is when we get over here in the columns.”

4. isim A miscellaneous object or thing; a thingy.

   “[H]e, […] had just ordered a Sennett. […] He wanted no detachable top of pleb[e]ian characteristics; he wanted two regular bodies, one for winter and one for summer. And he wanted a special color and a monogram and a whole lot of rinky-dinks that cost him money.”

5. isim Deceptive or underhanded rigmarole; deception, trickery; (countable) often preceded by the: an instance of this; a deception, swindle, a trick.

   “[H]e entered the realm of educational matters […] Two years of his life were spent at this elevating game, during which time he had only eighty-two fights with fond mothers who felt that he had been either neglectful of their particular children or had ruthlessly given them the rinky-dink.”

6. isim Alternative form of rinky-tink (“a tinkling, tinny style of music; honky-tonk”).

   “The [King] Oliver band had a new kind of beat, a real jazz beat instead of the ragtime rinky-dink.”

7. sıfat Of poor quality; amateurish, shoddy, small-time.

   “That rinky-dink shelf is likely to collapse if you fill it with books.”

8. sıfat Old-fashioned, tired; also, shabby, worn-out.
9. sıfat Crooked, dishonest, underhanded.

   “When NBC licensed his reruns to the Arts & Entertainment cable network without consulting him, he was incensed. "It was a rinky-dink deal," says a source.”

10. sıfat Alternative form of rinky-tink (“tinkling and tinny”).

    “As I child, I learned to play on that old pump organ and so had my father. This piano was very special. It had an extra floor pedal which gave the piano a rinky-dink sound like no other.”