Definitions for chinks

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Spelling: [chingk]

IPA: /tʃɪŋk/

Chinks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in chinks (chikns).

Definitions for chinks

noun

1. a crack, cleft, or fissure:
2. a narrow opening:
3. a chinking sound:
4. Slang. coin or ready cash.
5. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Chinese person.

verb (used with object)

1. to fill up chinks in.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make, or cause to make, a short, sharp, ringing sound, as of coins or glasses striking together.

Origin of chinks

1350-1400; Middle English; perhaps chine¹ + -k suffix (see -ock)

Examples for chinks

A slice of light through the chink stood across the passage.

They ran headlines—not once, but twice—referring to NBA stud Jeremy Lin as a “chink.”

“We were raised with this mystique about the accident being the chink in this important legacy,” she says.

I went up to the top, and through a chink I saw Madelaine, Mdlle.

"Aissa," he said, pleadingly, pressing his lips to a chink between the stakes.

I went up to the window and looked in through a chink in the shutter.

Some of the more unsavory boys from the neighborhood called him “chink.”

The one chink in this shrewd fellow's armor was his snobbery.

"That seems handsome," said I, reconnoitring through the chink.

Grant it but a chink or keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow.