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Clink

Clink Meaning & Definition
Clink Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Clink?

[n] 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)
[n] a short light metallic sound
[v] make or emit a high tinkling sound
[v] make a high sound, as of champagne glasses during a toast

Synonyms | Synonyms for Clink: chink | chink | click | gaol | jail | jailhouse | slammer | tink | tinkle

Related Terms | Find terms related to Clink: alliteration | assonance | blank verse | bump | calaboose | can | change ringing | chime | chiming | chink | chokey | clang | clanging | clangor | clank | clanking | click | clop | clump | clunk | consonance | cooler | coop | crambo | crump | ding | ding-a-ling | dingdong | dinging | dingle | dong | donging | double rhyme | dull thud | eye rhyme | flick | flump | gong | hoosegow | jangle | jingle | jinglejangle | jingle-jangle | jingling | jug | knell | knelling | lockup | near rhyme | pad | paronomasia | pat | patter | peal | peal ringing | pealing | pitapat | pitter-patter | plump | plunk | pokey | pop | pun | quod | rap | rhyme | rhyme royal | rhyme scheme | rhyming dictionary | ring | ring changes | ringing | single rhyme | slammer | slant rhyme | sound | sound a knell | stir | tail rhyme | tap | thud | thump | tick | ting | ting-a-ling | tingle | tingling | tink | tinkle | tinkling | tinnitus | tintinnabulate | toll | tolling | tunk | unrhymed poetry

See Also | bastille | clink | correctional institution | go | holding cell | hoosegow | hoosgow | house of correction | lockup | pokey | sound | sound | workhouse

Clink In Webster's Dictionary

\Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clinked} (kl[i^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Clinking}.] [OE. clinken; akin to G. klingen, D. klinken, SW. klinga, Dan. klinge; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. {Clank}, {Clench}, {Click}, v. i.] 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. --Shak.
\Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), v. i. 1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. ``The clinking latch.'' --Tennyson. 2. To rhyme. [Humorous]. --Cowper.
\Clink\, n. A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. ``Clink and fall of swords.'' --Shak.
\Clink\, n. A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. [Colloq.] ``I'm here in the clink.'' --Kipling.

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