To ring or jingle; chink; give forth a sharp metallic sound, or a succession of such sounds, as small metallic or other sonorous bodies in collision.To cause a clinking sound by striking two objects, as glasses, together.To make a jingle; chime.To cause to produce a sharp, ringing sound: as, to clink glasses in drinking healths.To clench; weld; clasp; seize quickly.n. A sharp, ringing sound made by the collision of sonorous (especially metallic) bodies.n. A smart stroke.n. Money; chink: as, “needfu' clink,”n. A latch.n. A key.n. plural Long iron nails.n. The name of a prison or lockup in Southwark, London, often mentioned in the sixteenth century and later.n. [lowercase] Any prison.