<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to make or cause to make a light, sharp, ringing sound: The coins clinked together. He clinked the fork against a glass.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a clinking sound.</li><li>Metallurgy: a small crack in a steel ingot resulting from uneven expanding or contracting.</li><li>a pointed steel bar for breaking up road surfaces.</li><li>Archaic: a rhyme; jingle.</li></ul>