n. A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack.n. a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive.verb-intransitive. To crack; to open.v. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.v. To fill up the chinks of.n. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.n. Money; cash.v. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.verb-intransitive. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.