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Wiktionary
n. 1 The plural of pink. 2 flowers in the family Caryophyllaceae, sometimes called carnations. 3 The traditional scarlet jacket(s) worn by fox-hunters in the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia
Pinks is a franchise series of television programs on SPEED TV based on street racing, held at legal closed drag strips with a theme around drag racing. The original aired from 2005 to 2008, with the spinoff Pinks: All Out following in 2006 until 2010. The name of the show, and the tagline "Lose the race - lose your ride", refer to common slang of pink slips representing a vehicle's title document recording ownership, and the derivative street-racing phrase, "racing for pinks," meaning a race in which the winner earns the loser's car. (In California, until recently, the vehicle title was on a pink slip of paper.)
The original was aired by Speed Channel in the United States and Canada, and also airs on Fox Sports 3 in Australia. The series is produced by Pullin Television. The 2016 version will air on Outdoor Channel and Fox Sports Racing starting in March of 2016 Produced by Brian Bossone's production company Boss One Media llc.
Competitors compete in a drag race (although in the original Pinks, there was a stepladder shifter kart race in Series 1, and the original franchise was based more on illegal street racing) in the franchise. The formats differ between the franchise's formats.
In the original series, the illegal street racing style drag race has provisions of the winner claiming ownership of the losing vehicle.
The race format changed slightly through each season:
- Early Series 1 (2005): 2 out of 3 races
- Later Series 1-Series 4 (2005–2007): 3 out of 5 races
- Series 5 (2008): 4 out of 7 races
As the show starts, the host, staff, and contestants sign a binding contract that will transfer the legal title of the two cars in question to Pullin Television, the production company of the show. Since the production company owns the vehicles it guarantees that the show will award the titles to both cars to the winner of the race and eliminates the chance that the loser will refuse to forfeit his/her car after the race.
Usage examples of "pinks".
I wear only soft pastels now, creamy pinks and pale blues and golds and soft limes, nothing bold and dramatic.
Floorboards black with age were either bleached and polished or replaced with gleaming new parquets, lovely Oriental carpets in pale pinks, tans, grays and yellow spread over them.
There were pinks and purples in the clouds, as though they were bruised.
If a white left a group, he or she was effortlessly scooped up and shunted into another conversation which might contain one or two pinks but was largely red.
pinks, meanwhile, were delicately passed from red group to red group until they were deeply pink, and then they were allowed to mix with other pinks of the same hue, under the supervision of a red.
In short, the pinks met so many reds, and so few whites, that they probably forgot about whites at all, while the whites, constantly alone or hugely outnumbered by reds or deep pinks, appeared to be going red out of embarrassment or a desire to blend in.