pinky

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Put your pinky, as well as any other digits that will fit, into an electrical socket.

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  1. noun Variant of pinkie1.
  2. noun Variant of pink3.

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  • A lot of people have pointed out Baldy's signature mangled pinky, with Simmons being the earliest. —  Deadspin
  • Sticking some phony fingernails to fingers of a couple of left gloves and ring-pinky area and tape those to make claw shape with thin strips of paper mache. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Again, other genres may be less strict in this rule, but in general the pinky is not very commonly used in fingerpicking. —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • Included in this group were Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandella and Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu, neither of whom lifted a pinky-finger to aid these fellow Black-Africans. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • It's numbest in my pinky, radiating out to my ring finger and part of my middle. —  MetaChat
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  1. from pink + -y.
  2. Also pinkie, pinkey; from pink + -y.
  3. Dim. of pink.
  4. Dim. of pink; ult. resting on pink. Compare dinky.
 

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/ˈpɪŋki/
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