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1. [offensive] (ethnic slur) a person of Chinese descent
    
2. A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
    
3. A short light metallic sound
   - click, clink

1. Make or emit a high sound
   "chinking bells";
   - tinkle, tink, clink
    
2. Fill the chinks of, as with caulking
    
3. Make cracks or chinks in
   "The heat chinked the paint";
   - check

Derived forms: chinked, chinking, chinks

Type of: Chinese, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, go, plug, scissure, secure, sound, stop up

Encyclopedia: Chink