Clinknoun
(onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
‘You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.’;
Chinknoun
A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
Clinknoun
(slang) A prison.
‘If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.’;
Chinknoun
A chip or dent (in something metallic).
Clinknoun
Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
Chinknoun
(figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
Clinkverb
(ambitransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
‘The hammers clinked on the stone all night.’;
Chinknoun
A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
Clinkverb
To rhyme.
Chinknoun
Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
Clinkverb
To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
‘And let me the canakin clink.’;
Chinkverb
(transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
‘to chink a wall’;
Clinkverb
To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
Chinkverb
(intransitive) To crack; to open.
Clinkverb
To rhyme. [Humorous].
Chinkverb
(transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Clinknoun
A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
Chinkverb
(intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
‘The coins were chinking in his pocket.’;
Clinknoun
A prison cell; a lockup; - probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England.
Chinkverb
(transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Clinknoun
a short light metallic sound
Chinknoun
A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.
‘Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.Shines out the dewy morning star.’;
Clinknoun
a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
Chinknoun
a chinaman; a chinese person; - disparaging and offensive.
Clinkverb
make a high sound typical of glass;
‘champagne glasses clinked to make a toast’;
Chinknoun
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
Clinkverb
make or emit a high sound;
‘tinkling bells’;
Chinknoun
Money; cash.
Chinkverb
To crack; to open.
Chinkverb
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Chinkverb
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chinkverb
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Chinkverb
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
Chinknoun
offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent
Chinknoun
a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
Chinknoun
a short light metallic sound
Chinkverb
make or emit a high sound;
‘tinkling bells’;
Chinkverb
fill the chinks of, as with caulking
Chinkverb
make cracks or chinks in;
‘The heat checked the paint’;
Chink
Chink is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent. The word is also sometimes indiscriminately used against people of East Asian appearance in general.
