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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024clink1 /klɪŋk/USA pronunciation v. - to (cause to) make a light, sharp, ringing sound: [no object]The coins clinked together.[~ + object]We always clink our glasses together and say "Cheers!''
n. [countable] - a clinking sound.
clink2 /klɪŋk/USA pronunciation n. [countable* usually singular: the + ~] Slang.- Slang Termsa prison;
jail;
lockup:Throw him in the clink!
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024clink1 (klingk),USA pronunciation v.t., v.i. - to make or cause to make a light, sharp, ringing sound:The coins clinked together. He clinked the fork against a glass.
n. - a clinking sound.
- Metallurgya small crack in a steel ingot resulting from uneven expanding or contracting.
- a pointed steel bar for breaking up road surfaces.
- [Archaic.]a rhyme;
jingle.
- Middle Dutch clinken to sound, ring, resound
- Middle English clinken, perh. 1275–1325
- Slang Termsa prison;
jail;
lockup.
- Dutch klink door-latch
- after Clink, name of prison in Southwark, London, perh. 1505–15
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: clink /klɪŋk/ vb - to make or cause to make a light and sharply ringing sound
n - a light and sharply ringing sound
Etymology: 14th Century: perhaps from Middle Dutch klinken; related to Old Low German chlanch, German Klang sound clink /klɪŋk/ n - a slang word for prison
Etymology: 16th Century: after Clink, name of a prison in Southwark, London |