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pink¹ noun 1 a light or pale-red colour, between red and white. 2 an annual or perennial plant, eg a carnation or sweet william, which has stems with swollen nodes, grass-like bluish-green leaves and flowers with a tubular calyx and five spreading toothed or slightly frilled pink, red, white, purple, yellow, orange or variegated petals. 3 a a scarlet hunting-coat or its colour; b the person wearing it. 4 the highest point; the acme • in the pink of condition. 5 a person of mildly left-wing views. Compare red noun 7. adj 1 having, being or referring to the colour pink. 2 slightly left-wing. in the pink colloq in the best of health. pinkish adj. pinkness noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c as noun sense 2.

pink² verb (pinked, pinking) to cut (cloth) with a notched or serrated edge that frays less readily than a straight edge. See also pinking shears.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon pyngan to prick.

pink³ verb (pinked, pinking) intrans said of a vehicle engine: to knock (verb 7).
ETYMOLOGY: Early 20c: imitating the sound made.