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terms | clinked |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb clinked is

(clink).

terms

English

Noun

(head)

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    clinked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clink)

    • clink

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatpoeic, as metal against metal. Related to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). Maybe from (etyl) , related to call. English onomatopoeias

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
    • You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.

    Verb

    (en 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.
  • * Tennyson
    • the clinking latch
  • (humorous, dated) To rhyme.

    • Etymology 2

    From prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) Jail or prison, after (w) prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase (in the clink).
    • If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink .
  • Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
    • Synonyms
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    Derived terms
    * in the clink