Thesaurus: chink

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1. n. A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
2. v. i. To crack; to open.
3. v. t. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
4. v. t. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
5. n. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
6. n. Money; cash.
7. v. t. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
8. v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
9. n. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
10. n. a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
11. n. a short light metallic sound
12. v. make or emit a high sound