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clinked

verb

past tense of clink
as in jingled
to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound coins clinking in his pocket as he traipsed down the street

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Recent Examples of clinked Twelve of the most powerful football owners, chairmen and CEOs clinked glasses and talked shop. — James Horncastle, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026 Miriam pulled one tooth, then another from her mouth, and clinked them into a porcelain dish on her nightstand. — Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026 In the next shot, the couple clinked wine glasses as Gomez took a bite of cheese, before Blanco filmed marinara sauce being laid in a pan. — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026 Our buckteeth clinked painfully. — Charna Flam, People.com, 25 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 As Champagne and martini glasses clinked, Pete Nordstrom paused to reflect on his three decades of attending the Paris shows. — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clinked
  1. jingled
  2. tinkled
  3. rang
  4. chimed
  5. tingled
  6. rattled
Verb
  • On the walls, a few pots hang from a copper rod, a dinner bell waits to be jingled, and an ancient clock keeps time.
    — Elazar Sontag, Washington Post, 2 July 2026
  • The bells that dangled off her red tunic jingled.
    — Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026
Definition of jingled
Verb
  • The bell tinkled, but this time the shelves were empty.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
  • Guests in silk blouses and slacks sipped scotch while the piano man tinkled the keys.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of tinkled
Verb
  • Minutes after the fight ended, a lone 911 caller rang authorities to report the brawl.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • According to the arrest report, detectives then found surveillance video showing the outside of the victim’s home moments before the two kidnappers rang the doorbell.
    — KFOX Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of rang
Verb
  • Two bells chimed during the ceremony and there was a wreath-laying at the Flight 93 memorial.
    — Kaanita Iyer, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Sunlight chimed off Rubber Hand’s hatchet blade.
    — Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
Definition of chimed
Verb
  • The only recourse those unregulated bookmakers had when their Spidey-senses tingled was to simply stop taking bets on the suspicious game.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Definition of tingled
Verb
  • Amid ongoing disputes that have rattled a city office at the center of complaints for months, a grievance is pending in which a worker claims unfair treatment, discrimination and that he was denied a deserved promotion.
    — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
  • That 59-point Week 1 output temporarily rattled the fan base’s belief in defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of rattled

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“Clinked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clinked. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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