[syn: tinkle, tink, clink, chink]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clink \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.
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And let me the canakin clink. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clink \Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), v. i.
1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. "The clinking
latch." --Tennyson.
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2. To rhyme. [Humorous]. --Cowper.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clink \Clink\, n.
A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of
sonorous bodies. "Clink and fall of swords." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clink \Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
clink
n 1: a short light metallic sound [syn: chink, click,
clink]
2: 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) [syn:
jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky,
pokey]
v 1: make a high sound typical of glass; "champagne glasses
clinked to make a toast"
2: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle,
tink, clink, chink]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle,
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