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Examples
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Chuckle all we want, but this is just the kind of rinky-dink bullshit that local yokels love.
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The sails were furled, of course, leaving the job of propulsion to some kind of rinky-dink engine that had to fight winds currently peaking at over eighty mph, not to mention seas that must look like mountains from the deck of the junk.
Typhoon Season Douglass, Keith 2000
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Take it Back, "which they came up with, but I thought it was kind of rinky-dink.
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back 1997
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So now we have to add one more word to the Bryce Harper Dictionary, just ahead of "oppo boppo" and "rinky dinks."
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That's right ... they're still living in the same rinky dink town.
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All these rinky dink agencies trying oh-so relentlessly to herd our weary eyeballs round some archetypal loop of media integration.
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Imagine me, just venturing around the wasteland when I spot a rinky dink house in the distance.
Fallout 3: Status Report (Level 20) pabba 2009
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Here's the bigger question: Is there a major problem here -- or is this merely a case of "getting all the rinky dinks out" to quote the eminently quotable Bryce Harper in the early stages of the spring?
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At 60, however, having reached a nadir — he loses his job teaching fifth-grade history at a second-rate school and moves from his substantial place to a “rinky-dink starter apartment” — he gets a do-over.
Cover to Cover 2010
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That's right ... they're still living in the same rinky dink town.
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