pinker

1. comparativecomparative form of pink: more pink

plural pinkers

1. One who pinks (in various senses).

   The job paid $65 a week. However, when she arrived for work, the employer informed her that she would also be required to do some pinking, and that she would be paid at the rate for pinkers, which was only $50 a week.

   2000, Leigh David Benin, The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry, page 92

1. A surname.

   The appearance underlines past incidents in which Pinker has encountered criticism for his association with advocates of so-called “human biodiversity”, which other academics have called a “rebranding” of racial genetic essentialism and scientific racism.

   2025 June 7, Jason Wilson, “Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2025