clink

About 0.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

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

2. noun Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
3. verb 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.

4. verb To rhyme.
5. noun A prison.

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

6. verb To clinch; to rivet.

Similar words

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Often followed by

of and glasses as in against on street for

Word family

clinked clinking clinks