pinko-|ˈpɪŋkəʊ|[See -o.]Used as a combining form of pink n.4and a.1 in pinko-greya., of a pinkish-grey colour; spec.= white a. 4; hence as n., a ‘white’ person.1924E. M. Forster Passage to India vii. 62 The remark that did him most harm at the club was a silly aside to the effect that the so-called white races are really pinko-grey.1953W. G. Walter Living Brain i. 1 By brain is meant..something more than the pinko-grey jelly of the anatomist.1961P. Mason Common Sense about Race i. iii. 49 A pinko-grey man is rather more likely than a Negro to have traces of the ridges above the eyes..so prominent in the gorilla.1964‘M. Innes’ Money from Holme x. 68 The pinko-greys out there [sc. in Africa] aren't exactly aesthetes.1973J. Mann Only Security xi. 142 A pinko-grey lib-lab, that's you.1974Times 5 June 16/5 The pinko-grays, to use E. M. Forster's accurate description, were entirely safe... Britain was about to quit India.1977T. Heald Just Desserts iii. 47 His usual pinko-grey complexion.