Definitions for clink

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Spelling: [klingk]

IPA: /klɪŋk/

Clink is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in clink (cikln).

Definitions for clink

noun

1. a clinking sound.
2. Metallurgy. a small crack in a steel ingot resulting from uneven expanding or contracting.
3. a pointed steel bar for breaking up road surfaces.
4. Archaic. a rhyme; jingle.
5. a prison; jail; lockup.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or cause to make a light, sharp, ringing sound:

Origin of clink

1275-1325; Middle English clinken, perhaps Middle Dutch clinken to sound, ring, resound

Examples for clink

The fact that he was for a time "committed to the clink" failed to deter him.

The penalty was what Kozlovsky alluded to without knowledge of its origin: 15 days in the clink, plus a fine.

We find him living on the Bankside and in the Liberty of the clink at least as early as 1577.

Fists often pounded on the bar, causing the glasses to clink.

Surely the clink of the iron shoe of a horse on a stone in the road!

All day long the place rings with the clink of hammers and the clang of metal bars.

Try to remember that name as you curse him out on your way to the clink.

You can clink your wine glass and deliver an impassioned speech about conquering the demons that kept you confined in the closet.

Sannikov and the other opposition candidates are arrested and thrown in the clink, along with thousands of ordinary citizens.

He heard them even before he had left his bunk—the clink, creak, creak!