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Clink

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.

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

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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