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▸ noun: Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
▸ noun: Pale red.
▸ noun: Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
▸ noun: (dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
▸ noun: Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
▸ noun: (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
▸ noun: (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
▸ noun: (slang) The vagina or vulva.
▸ adjective: Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
▸ adjective: Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
▸ adjective: Having conjunctivitis.
▸ adjective: By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
▸ adjective: (informal) Relating to women or girls.
▸ adjective: (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
▸ verb: (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
▸ verb: (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
▸ noun: (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
▸ noun: (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
▸ noun: (now obsolete) A narrow boat.
▸ verb: To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
▸ verb: To prick with a sword.
▸ verb: To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
▸ verb: Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
▸ verb: Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To wink; to blink.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Half-shut; winking.
▸ noun: (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (slang, derogatory, dated) An operative of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
▸ noun: Alternative form of pinko [(informal, often derogatory, chiefly US) A socialist, particularly one who is not wholly communist.]
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