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clink (kliŋk)

intransitive verb, transitive verb

to make or cause to make a slight, sharp sound, as of glasses striking together

Etymology: ME clinken < MDu klinken: orig. echoic

noun

  1. such a sound

  2. Etymology: < name of an 18th-c. prison in Southwark (London)

    Informal a jail; prison

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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