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chink
chink is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
- 2intransitive verb
To crack; to open.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- 4transitive verb
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
- 5noun
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
- 6noun
Money; cash.
- 7transitive verb
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- 8intransitive verb
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
- 9noun
a short light metallic sound
- 10noun
a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
- 11noun
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
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- 12verb
make cracks or chinks in
"The heat checked the paint"
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- 13verb
fill the chinks of, as with caulking
- 14verb
make or emit a high sound
"tinkling bells"
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