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TINK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tink mean?
• TINK (verb)
The verb TINK has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: TINK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make or emit a high sound
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
Context example:
tinkling bells
Hypernyms (to "tink" is one way to...):
go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples
Ah, mine Gott, you tink I talk of de cuisine.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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