clink

1. 1.

   make a high sound typical of glass

   “champagne glasses clinked to make a toast”

   Broadersound
2. 2.

   make or emit a high sound

   “tinkling bells”

   Synonymstinkletinkchink

   Broadersound

Other forms of clink

plural

clinks·

past tense

clinked·

present participle

clinking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clink

What does clink mean?

clink means "a short light metallic sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clink?

clink has 1 syllable: clink. In IPA it is /ˈklɪŋk/.

What is another word for clink?

Close synonyms include chink, click, jail, jailhouse, gaol. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clink a common word?

clink is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.