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chinker

chinker noun: any material that is used to fill chinks.

Noun

chinker (plural chinkers)

  1. Any material that is used to fill chinks.
  2. (in plural, slang) Money.
    • Riley […] bade the Israelite "make haste with the chinkers." Old David tottered slowly across the apartment, to the closet before spoken of, groaning at the very idea of parting with so much money; […]1847, Emerson Bennett, The Bandits of the Osage

Forms of chinker

pluralchinkers

Origin of chinker

chink + -er

Questions about chinker

What does chinker mean?
Chinker means any material that is used to fill chinks.
What part of speech is chinker?
Chinker is a noun.
What is the plural of chinker?
The plural of chinker is chinkers.

Words near chinker in the dictionary

  1. Chinkapook
  2. chinkara
  3. chinkaras
  4. chinked
  5. chinked up
  6. chinker
  7. chinkerichee
  8. chinkerichees
  9. chinkerinchee
  10. chinkerinchees
  11. chinkers

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