Definition of "clink" [clink]

• To make or cause to make a light, sharp ringing sound: clinked their wineglasses together in a toast. (verb-transitive)
• A light, sharp ringing sound, as of glass or metal. (noun)
• Slang A prison or a prison cell; a jail: spent the night in the clink. (noun)

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• "Or, So let the cannikin clink clink … let the cannikin clink!"
• "The producer of an Islamic version of The Jerry Springer Opera would end up in clink - admittedly a better alternative to being dead, which no one can doubt he would be."
• "It appears eighteen months, an entire family of burglars locked up three times, numerous drug supply convictions and more car thiefs in clink than I can shake a stick at are really not the sort of stats we are looking for."