clinks

noun

  1. 1

    The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.

    “You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.”

verb

  1. 1

    To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

    “The hammers clinked on the stone all night.”
  2. 2

    To rhyme.

noun

  1. 1

    A prison.

    “If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.”
  2. 2

    Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

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