Usually means: Small decorative item, often inexpensive.
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  1. trinket: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trinket: Merriam-Webster
  3. trinket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trinket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trinket: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trinket: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trinket, trinket: Wordnik
  8. trinket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. trinket: Wiktionary
  10. trinket: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. trinket: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. trinket: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. trinket: Dictionary.com
  14. trinket: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. trinket: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Trinket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Trinket: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. trinket: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. trinket: Rhymezone
  20. Trinket: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. trinket: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. trinket: FreeDictionary.org
  23. trinket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. trinket: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. trinket: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trinket: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. trinket: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. trinket, trinket(s): Urban Dictionary

(Note: See trinketer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small, showy ornament, especially a piece of jewellery.
noun:  (figurative) A thing of little value; a toy, a trifle.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  A small item of food; a small dainty.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A small item forming part of a set of equipment; an accessory, an accoutrement.
noun:  (figurative, religion, derogatory) An item used in a religious rite (also, a religious rite, belief, etc.) regarded as superfluous or trivial.
verb:  (transitive, rare) Often followed by out: to adorn (someone or something) with trinkets (noun sense 1).
noun:  (Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland) A narrow or small watercourse.
noun:  (UK, dialectal, chiefly Cheshire, Lancashire, obsolete) A small vessel for drinking from; a cup, a mug, a porringer.
noun:  (nautical, obsolete) A small sail, specifically, a three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To act in a secret, and often dishonest, way; to have secret, and often dishonest, dealings; to intrigue, to scheme.

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