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clink

1

[ klingk ]

  1. to make or cause to make a light, sharp, ringing sound:

    The coins clinked together. He clinked the fork against a glass.



  1. a clinking sound.
  2. Metallurgy. a small crack in a steel ingot resulting from uneven expanding or contracting.
  3. a pointed steel bar for breaking up road surfaces.
  4. Archaic. a rhyme; jingle.

clink

2

[ klingk ]

  1. a prison; jail; lockup.

clink

1

/ klɪŋk /

  1. a slang word for prison
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


clink

2

/ klɪŋk /

  1. to make or cause to make a light and sharply ringing sound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
  1. a light and sharply ringing sound
  2. a pointed steel tool used for breaking up the surface of a road before it is repaired
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of clink1

1275–1325; Middle English clinken, perhaps < Middle Dutch clinken to sound, ring, resound

Origin of clink2

1505–15; after Clink, name of prison in Southwark, London, perhaps < Dutch klink door-latch
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Word History and Origins

Origin of clink1

C16: after Clink, name of a prison in Southwark, London

Origin of clink2

C14: perhaps from Middle Dutch klinken; related to Old Low German chlanch, German Klang sound
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Example Sentences

I’m in a dimly lit steakhouse with a crowd of fellow diners around me, their voices and the clinks of glassware harmonizing into a convivial hum, no masks to be seen or six feet of social distance observed.

You can clink your wine glass and deliver an impassioned speech about conquering the demons that kept you confined in the closet.

Sannikov and the other opposition candidates are arrested and thrown in the clink, along with thousands of ordinary citizens.

The penalty was what Kozlovsky alluded to without knowledge of its origin: 15 days in the clink, plus a fine.

All day long the place rings with the clink of hammers and the clang of metal bars.

Try to remember that name as you curse him out on your way to the clink.

The clink of the stone-masons' chisels had resounded year after year from morning till night.

When a man's in clink, his nag gets nothing but mild exercise till his rightful rider gets out.

Fragment, apparently from a columnar mass, of a stone intermediate between clink-stone and compact felspar.

The north of Blue-Mud Bay has furnished also specimens of ancient sandstone; with columnar rocks, probably of clink-stone.

I have now sent three letters to the tenant, one Clink, by teamsters, and he has never replied.

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