Definition of clink Clink

/klɪˈŋk/ - [klingk] - clink

We found 13 definitions of clink from 6 different sources.

What does clink mean?

Verb clinks, clinking, clinked
clink - make a high sound typical of glass; "champagne glasses clinked to make a toast"
		sound appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
clink - make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells"
		tinkle, tink, chink
		sound, go appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"

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clink (Noun)
The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
clink (Noun)
Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
clink (Verb)
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.

clink (v. i.)
To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
clink (v. i.)
To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
clink (v. i.)
To rhyme. [Humorous].
clink (n.)
A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.

clink
klingk, n. a ringing sound made by the striking together of sounding bodies: jingle.—v.t. to cause to make a ringing sound.—v.i. to ring or jingle: to go with a clinking sound.—n. Clink′er, the name given to the scales or globules of black oxide of iron, obtained from red-hot iron under the blows of a hammer: the slags of iron furnaces: the cindery-like masses which form the crust of some lava-flows.—adj. Clink′er-built, made of planks which overlap each other below (as distinguished from carvel-built) and are fastened together with clinched nails.—n. Clink′stone, a greenish-gray or brownish compact, or very finely crystalline igneous rock, splitting into slabs, which give a metallic clink when struck by a hammer. [A form of Click and Clank.]
clink
klingk, v.t. to clinch: to rivet. [Scot. for Clinch.]

clink
A place in the Borough of Southwark, formerly privileged from arrests; and inhabited by lawless vagabonds of every denomination, called, from the place of their residence, clinkers. Also a gaol, from the clinking of the prisoners' chains or fetters: he is gone to clink.

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clink in sign language