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Definition of Chink
1. Verb. Make or emit a high sound. "Tinkling bells"
2. Noun. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent.
Language type: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement, Ethnic Slur, Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Generic synonyms: Chinese
3. Verb. Fill the chinks of, as with caulking.
4. Noun. A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall.
5. Verb. Make cracks or chinks in. "The heat checked the paint"
Related verbs: Break, Check, Crack
Generic synonyms: Crack
Derivative terms: Check
6. Noun. A short light metallic sound.
Definition of Chink
1. n. A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.
2. v. i. To crack; to open.
3. v. t. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
4. n. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
5. 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.
6. v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
Definition of Chink
1. Noun. (slang ethnic slur pejorative) A Chinese person. ¹
2. Noun. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack. ¹
3. Noun. A chip or dent (in something metallic). ¹
4. Noun. A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system, idiomatically derived from the phrase "chink in armor". ¹
5. Noun. (slang) coin or ready cash (1565-75) ¹
6. Verb. To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk. ¹
7. Noun. A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other. ¹
8. Noun. (context: colloquial now rare) Ready money, especially in the form of coins. ¹
9. Verb. To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching. ¹
10. Noun. (alternative form of Chink) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chink
1. to fill cracks or fissures in [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chink
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