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Plural of clink

regular plural

The plural of clink is clinks.

Forms of clink

Singularclink /klɪŋk/
Pluralclinks
Countablecountable

Clinks in a sentence

  • Silence settles once more between us all, filled only by the gingerest of clinks of forks reluctantly hovering over flesh.2015, James Hannah, “Rib”, in The A to Z of You and Me, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry ginger

Meaning of clink

  1. noun The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
  2. noun Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
  3. verb 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.

Full definition of clink

Questions about the plural of clink

What is the plural of clink?
The plural of clink is clinks.
Is clink countable?
Clink is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clink (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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