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
Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
When given a shake, the piece emits echoing clinks evocative of rushing water.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
Glasses clinked; and at the center of it all was her very first ESSENCE cover, in October 2017.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
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Noun
In the coastal towns, surfers line the golden sand beaches and tuk-tuks zip along twisting roads, their horns blending with the rhythmic clink of fishmongers’ knives and the sizzle of hoppers frying in street stalls.
—Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
When given a shake, the piece emits echoing clinks evocative of rushing water.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Verb
Before anyone knew it, the house would be as fragrant of cocoa and sugar and butter as it was filled with conversation and laughter and clinking silverware.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
Glasses clinked; and at the center of it all was her very first ESSENCE cover, in October 2017.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clink
Noun
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He is being held on $2 million bail, online jail records show.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
8 Sep. 2025
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He was eventually sentenced to six years in jail for defrauding investors.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Dogs showing signs of separation anxiety may benefit from gradual desensitization to being alone and learning to dissociate cues like jingling keys from being left alone.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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Some hikers wear small bells that jingle while walking, signaling their presence to animals.—
Ruffin Prevost,
AFAR Media,
18 July 2025
Noun
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My dad would always play documentaries about prison life and stuff that would come on Discovery ID or, every now and then, even national news segments.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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Through the deal, prosecutors dropped the two murder charges — and shipped Henry, 26, off to prison for 10 years — in exchange for his plea.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The soothing, deeply resonant humming of the bowls and sparkling tinkling of chimes filled the room.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
12 Aug. 2025
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The herds are decked out in crowns of flowers, and the air will be noisy, full of tinkling bells as the cattle trudge down from the higher Alpine pastures to the lower stretches of greenery in and around this town.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At Parchman, the state’s troubled penitentiary, corrections workers were urging their colleagues to sign up.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
26 Aug. 2025
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After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.—
Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The line rang several times before going to voicemail.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Another suggestion that people should pre-order them several weeks out also did not ring true.—
Edward Segal,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 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
Verb
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Dialogue stays crisp for late-night Netflix, and game audio feels punchy without rattling the shelves.—
Shubham Yewale,
PC Magazine,
3 Sep. 2025
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The wind howled, rattling metal signs and tugging at our clothes as the dust swallowed everything in sight.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Clink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clink. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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