CHINK


Meaning of CHINK in English

noun money; cash.

2. chink ·vt to cause to open in cracks or fissures.

3. chink ·vt to fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

4. chink ·vi to crack; to open.

5. chink ·noun a short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

6. chink ·noun a small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

7. chink ·vi to make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

8. chink ·vt to cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, ·etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

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