clink

Etymology 1
From, from (compare , ), from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Related to. May be further related to.

Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.

Noun

 * 1)  The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
 * You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
 * 1) * 1874,, Chapter V
 * When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
 * 1) Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

Translations

 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: kilinä
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: tinido
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,

Verb

 * 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.
 * 2)  To rhyme.
 * 1)  To rhyme.
 * 1)  To rhyme.
 * 1)  To rhyme.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: （使）叮当响
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: kilissä, trilissä
 * Norman: trîntchi
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Swedish: klirra,

Etymology 2
From the Clink prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.

Noun

 * 1)  A prison.
 * If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:jail

Verb

 * 1)  To clinch; to rivet.