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Chink   /tʃɪŋk/   Listen
Chink

noun
1.
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent.  Synonym: Chinaman.
2.
A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall.
3.
A short light metallic sound.  Synonyms: click, clink.
verb
(past & past part. chinked; pres. part. chinking)
1.
Make or emit a high sound.  Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle.
2.
Fill the chinks of, as with caulking.
3.
Make cracks or chinks in.  Synonym: check.





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"Chink" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a garret aloof, And have few friends, and go poorly clad, With an old hat stopping the chink in the roof, To keep the goddess constant ...
— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler
... lamp, hooked to a small chink of the hanging wall, and then pulled his hat over his bulging forehead. Carefully he attempted to smooth his straying mustache, and failing, as always, gave up ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... means a poor village," said Chichikov to himself; wherefore he decided then and there to have a talk with his hostess, and to cultivate her closer acquaintance. Accordingly he peeped through the chink of the door whence her head had recently protruded, and, on seeing her seated at a tea table, entered and greeted her with ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... before he recovered his equanimity. Indeed it was not quite restored till the entrance of another customer, who purchased two ounces of butter. When, in the dead silence which ensued, Sally was heard weighing out the order, O'Gree's face beamed; and when there followed the chink of coins in the till, he brought his fist down with a triumphant crash ...
— The Unclassed • George Gissing
... of one of the rocks in case he happened to be prowling around the house. In the silence of the night he listened for the sound of footsteps on the rocks, but could hear nothing except the moan of the sea and the whimper of a rising wind. His eye, glancing upwards, fell upon a chink of shuttered light in the back of the house which looked down on the sea. The light came from the dead man's study, and had not been there a few ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees


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