Clink

[klingk] /klɪŋk/

verb (used with or without object)
1.
to make or cause to make a light, sharp, ringing sound:
The coins clinked together. He clinked the fork against a glass.
noun
2.
a clinking sound.
3.
Metallurgy. a small crack in a steel ingot resulting from uneven expanding or contracting.
4.
a pointed steel bar for breaking up road surfaces.
5.
Archaic. a rhyme; jingle.
[klingk] /klɪŋk/
noun, Slang.
1.
a prison; jail; lockup.
/klɪŋk/
verb
1.
to make or cause to make a light and sharply ringing sound
noun
2.
a light and sharply ringing sound
3.
(Brit) a pointed steel tool used for breaking up the surface of a road before it is repaired
/klɪŋk/
noun
1.
a slang word for prison
v.

early 14c., echoic (cf. Dutch klinken, Old High German klingan, German klingen). Related: Clinked; clinking. The noun in the sound sense is from c.1400.
n.

“sharp, ringing sound made by collision of sonorous (especially metallic) bodies,” c.1400, from clink (v.).

“prison,” 1770s, apparently originally (early 16c.) the Clynke on Clink Street in Southwark, on the estate of the bishops of Winchester. To kiss the clink “to be imprisoned” is from 1580s, and the word and the prison name might be cognate derivatives of the sound made by chains or metal locks (see clink (v.)).

noun

A black person; brother (Black)

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