dink n.4
(US campus) a small skullcap worn by freshmen.
![]() | AS II:6 276: dink — skull cap for freshmen. | ‘Stanford Expressions’ in|
![]() | Cornell (University) Daily Sun 18 May 4: Lovers of the old-fashioned dink [W&F]. | |
![]() | (con. 1941) | Doing Battle 52: Freshman [sic] had special, would-be humiliating headwear, little green flannel ‘beanies’ or ‘dinks’ with the class-year ‘45’ in yellow on the front.