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rinky-dink
adjective
[ rɪŋkɪˈdɪŋk ]
• old-fashioned, amateurish, or shoddy.
• "the fifty-third issue of the quarterly looked just as rinky-dink as the first"
Origin:
late 19th century: of unknown origin.