clink Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a short light metallic sound
    click; chink.
  2. noun 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)
    slammer; pokey; gaol; jail; jailhouse; poky.
  3. verb make a high sound typical of glass
    • champagne glasses clinked to make a toast
  4. verb make or emit a high sound
    tink; chink; tinkle.
    • tinkling bells

WordNet

Clink transitive verb
Etymology
OE. clinken; akin to G. klingen, D. klinken, SW. klinga, Dan. klinge; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. Clank, Clench, Click, v. i.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Clinked ; present participle & verbal noun Clinking
Definitions
  1. 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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To give out a slight, sharp, thinkling sound. "The clinking latch." Tennyson.
  2. To rhyme. Humorous. Cowper.
Clink noun
Definitions
  1. A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. "Clink and fall of swords." Shak.

Webster 1913