Usually means: Suspicious, uneasy feeling about something.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. hinky: Merriam-Webster
  2. hinky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hinky: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Hinky, hinky: Wordnik
  5. hinky: Wiktionary
  6. hinky: Dictionary.com
  7. Hinky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hinky, hinky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hinky: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (hinky)

adjective:  Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.
adjective:  Suspicious (of something).
adjective:  Dishonest; sketchy; shady
adjective:  (derogatory) Weird; nonstandard.
adjective:  Unreliable; wonky
adjective:  Snobbish; haughty

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