Synonyms for clink

Most common

jail · jailhouse · slammer · click

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Definitions

1. n. 1

   The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.

   You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.

2. v. 1

   To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

   The hammers clinked on the stone all night.

Related words

Word family

clinker clinkstone

Other spellings

klink

Forms

Plural

clinks → jails, slammers, prisons, pokeys…

Past participle

clinked
e.g. clinked → tinkled, clanked, chinked, tinked…

Example sentences

• jail It's been 10 days since my boyfriend went to jail.
• jailhouse Tom's favorite Elvis Presley song is "Jailhouse Rock."
• slammer As far as I am concerned, prison and slammer are different things.
• click Ziri and Rima didn't really click with each other.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

jail¹, gaol, tink

5 letters

click¹, clank¹, chink¹, pokey²

6 letters

prison², tinkle²

7 letters

slammer²

9 letters

jailhouse², calaboose

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pokey² = 2 syllables).