as in jail
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
I once spent a night in the clink, and it's an experience I don't want to repeat
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Recent Examples of clink
Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
For the ever-important clink of the glasses, there’s French champagne and Anderson Valley brut as well as sparkling wine concoctions, such as a sage and honey-pear cocktail.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
Escher Walcott, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Models congregated outside in the smoking area, naturally, while the Burberry PR team could be spotted clinking glasses to celebrate their blockbuster show going off without a hitch.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2025
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Noun
After everyone clinks drinks, Jesse, 30, inquires about Paige’s whereabouts.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
For the ever-important clink of the glasses, there’s French champagne and Anderson Valley brut as well as sparkling wine concoctions, such as a sage and honey-pear cocktail.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
Verb
Kendall Jenner clinks glasses with Billy Dec at the Blueprint Underground Cocktail Club in Nashville, Tennessee on March 13.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Models congregated outside in the smoking area, naturally, while the Burberry PR team could be spotted clinking glasses to celebrate their blockbuster show going off without a hitch.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clink
Noun
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Seven inmates are still at large on May 19 after escaping from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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The attack lands him behind bars, not for the first time, with his seven-month jail stint an interstice covered by the first of Dickinson’s vertiginous reality-break sequences.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 May 2025
Verb
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And that repeating first couplet — which comprises six of the poem’s 18 lines and occupied the first day of this challenge — will surely jingle in your pocket for a long time to come.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.—
Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In that case, Douglas was sentenced to five years of probation and had his 2-year prison sentence stayed, court documents say.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
19 May 2025
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In June 2024, three people were sentenced to eight months in prison after being found guilty of racially abusing Vinicius Jr in that May 2023 match at Valencia.—
Colin Millar,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
Verb
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The background music, pleasantly tinkled nightly by a real person sitting at a real piano, mixes in pop melodies alongside the Broadway classics and jazz standards.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
18 May 2025
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Another smaller-scale way to protect plants is to strategically redirect your pet's attention, especially if they're tempted to tinkle in the garden.—
Maddie Topliff,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 May 2025
Noun
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The gallows, where 15 penitentiary inmates were executed by hanging, were no longer there.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
17 May 2025
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Instead, Trump took a number of potshots at his sometime opponent during a Tuesday press conference, less than 48 hours after ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
7 May 2025
Verb
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After the dives, the team held a remembrance ceremony on board Atlantis, ringing a bell 19 times — one for each crew member lost at sea.—
Stephen Smith,
CBS News,
24 May 2025
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Rights groups are ringing the alarm, saying it’s become standard procedure increasingly used in the war.—
Sam Mednick,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2025
Verb
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One of our challenges was thinking up a good chinking method that wouldn’t take an entire month.—
Tasha Zemke,
Outside Online,
24 Oct. 2024
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But already chinks in the vault’s armor have appeared.—
Naomi Oreskes,
Scientific American,
17 Sep. 2024
Verb
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The chill in investor confidence spread to the stock market, but several announcements from Trump about tariffs rattled stocks deeper.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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The booms rattle windows, frighten pets, and have raised concerns about threats to the structural integrity of private homes.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 May 2025
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“Clink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clink. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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