pink: meaning and definitions

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What is pink?

What is pink?

  • Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.
  • Any of various plants of the genus Dianthus, such as the carnation and sweet William, often cultivated for their showy fragrant flowers.
  • Any of various other plants, such as the wild pink and the moss pink.
  • A flower of any of these plants.
  • The highest or best degree: in the pink of health.
  • Light-colored trousers formerly worn as part of the winter semidress uniform by U.S. Army officers.
  • The scarlet coat worn by fox hunters.
  • Slang A pinko.
  • A pink salmon
  • Of the color pink.
  • Slang Having moderately leftist political opinions.
  • To stab lightly with a pointed weapon; prick.
  • To decorate with a perforated pattern.
  • To cut with pinking shears.
  • Nautical A small sailing vessel with a sharply narrowed stern and an overhanging transom.

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