Meanings
- abbreviationellipsisinformalEllipsis of in the pink of health.
The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope of manufacturers everywhere. Then again, maybe we were simply a nation literally “in the pink” with postwar prosperity[…]
2002 October 17, Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 4 - informalNude, naked.
[I] Somehow believed / That her shit didn't stink / Until I caught her / In the pink / Making her tight / Asshole wink / Turns out this slimy bitch / Had done me grimy for years […]
2011 September 15, Donald T. Williams, The Devil Made Me Do It Too: Pressing, Personal, Poetic, Purview, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 1151 more example
I said to Daddy, 'Can you swim?' He said, 'You're not going, and that's that.' I asked him again, later on, when he was drinking his Horlicks, and he said they used to swim from one pier IN THE PINK - Laurie Graham.
1999, Nicholas Royle, Neonlit: The Time Out Book of New Writing
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