- to make or cause to make a light, sharp, ringing sound: The coins clinked together. He clinked the fork against a glass.
- a clinking sound.
- a small crack in a steel ingot resulting from uneven expanding or contracting.
- a pointed steel bar for breaking up road surfaces.
- a rhyme; jingle.
- a prison; jail; lockup.
- to make or cause to make a light and sharply ringing sound
- a light and sharply ringing sound
- a pointed steel tool used for breaking up the surface of a road before it is repaired
- a slang word for prison
