CLINKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clinking mean? 

• CLINKING (adjective)
  The adjective CLINKING has 1 sense:

1. like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped

  Familiarity information: CLINKING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLINKING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped

Similar:

reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)

 Context examples 

I was afraid it was too happy to be real, and that I should wake in Buckingham Street presently, and hear Mrs. Crupp clinking the teacups in getting breakfast ready.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Clatter of hoofs, clinking of weapons, shouts from the drunken brawlers, and high laughter of women, they all rose up, like the mist from a marsh, out of the crowded streets of the dim-lit city.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again there was a long silence, and I had begun to fear that it was a false alarm, when a stealthy step was heard upon the other side of the hut, and a moment later a metallic scraping and clinking.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the mingled reality and mystery of the whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, the music, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glittering and brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up such illimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainy street, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from the clouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to a bawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, patten-clinking, muddy, miserable world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)