'Chink' definitions:
Definition of 'chink'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Chink'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Chink'
From: GCIDE
- Chink \Chink\, v. t.
- 1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chink'
From: GCIDE
- Chink \Chink\, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle.]
- 1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." --Somerville. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chink'
From: GCIDE
- Chink \Chink\, v. t. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chink'
From: GCIDE
- Chink \Chink\ (ch[i^][ng]k), n. [OE. chine, AS. c[imac]ne fissure, chink, fr. c[imac]nan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit.] A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall. [1913 Webster]
- Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chink'
From: GCIDE
- Chink \Chink\ (ch[i^][ng]k), n. [From chinaman.] a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive. [slang] [PJC]
Definition of 'Chink'
From: GCIDE
- Chink \Chink\, v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chink'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysm,
- abyss,
- aperture,
- arroyo,
- assailability,
- bar,
- bezel,
- bind,
- block,
- block up,
- blockade,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- broach,
- bump,
- bung,
- canyon,
- cash,
- caulk,
- cavity,
- chamfer,
- change ringing,
- chap,
- chase,
- chasm,
- check,
- chime,
- chiming,
- chimney,
- choke,
- choke off,
- choke up,
- clang,
- clanging,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clanking,
- cleave,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- click,
- clink,
- clog,
- clog up,
- clop,
- clough,
- clump,
- clunk,
- coin,
- col,
- congest,
- constipate,
- cork,
- corrugation,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- cover,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- crump,
- currency,
- cut,
- cut open,
- cwm,
- dado,
- dam,
- dam up,
- defile,
- dell,
- dike,
- ding,
- ding-a-ling,
- dingdong,
- dinging,
- dingle,
- dispart,
- ditch,
- divaricate,
- divide,
- dong,
- donga,
- donging,
- dough,
- draw,
- dull thud,
- engraving,
- excavation,
- fault,
- fill,
- fill up,
- filthy lucre,
- fissure,
- flaw,
- flick,
- flume,
- flump,
- flute,
- fluting,
- fly open,
- foul,
- fracture,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gong,
- gorge,
- gouge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- heel of Achilles,
- hole,
- incise,
- incision,
- interruption,
- jam,
- jangle,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jinglejangle,
- jingling,
- joint,
- kloof,
- knell,
- knelling,
- lay open,
- leak,
- legal tender,
- lettuce,
- loot,
- microgroove,
- moat,
- notch,
- nullah,
- obstipate,
- obstruct,
- ope,
- open,
- open up,
- opening,
- pack,
- pad,
- part,
- pass,
- passage,
- pat,
- patter,
- peal,
- peal ringing,
- pealing,
- penetrability,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- plug,
- plug up,
- plump,
- plunk,
- pop,
- pregnability,
- rabbet,
- rap,
- ravine,
- rent,
- rifling,
- rift,
- rime,
- ring,
- ring changes,
- ringing,
- rip,
- rive,
- ruck,
- rupture,
- rut,
- scissure,
- score,
- scratch,
- seam,
- separate,
- slit,
- slot,
- soft spot,
- sound,
- sound a knell,
- spile,
- split,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spring open,
- stanch,
- stay,
- stench,
- stop,
- stop up,
- stopper,
- stopple,
- streak,
- stria,
- striation,
- stuff,
- stuff up,
- sulcation,
- sulcus,
- swing open,
- tap,
- tear,
- tear open,
- throw open,
- thud,
- thump,
- tick,
- ting,
- ting-a-ling,
- tingle,
- tingling,
- tink,
- tinkle,
- tinkling,
- tinnitus,
- tintinnabulate,
- toll,
- tolling,
- trench,
- tunk,
- valley,
- vincibility,
- void,
- vulnerability,
- vulnerable point,
- wadi,
- wampum,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness,
- well-worn groove,
- wrinkle