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Word: dinkum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite a last-minute change in plans, when a destroyer struck a mine and blocked the inshore channel to Lingkas Bay, the operation was a dinkum one. Admiral Royal switched to a hazardously narrow channel, brought the stunt off and landed his troops on time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Operation Foo-Foo | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...Dinkum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Sirs: TIME (June 12): "Curtin . . . gave . . . Mr. King a dinkum lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

What is a "dinkum" lesson? JACK FORBES Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Australian slangsters apply "dinkum," meaning "genuine," "the real thing," to anything from a sermon to a race horse. Nearest U.S. equivalent: "the McCoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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