Definition of chink

• n. - A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
• v. i. - To crack; to open.
• v. t. - To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
• v. t. - To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
• n. - A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
• n. - Money; cash.
• 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.
• v. i. - To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.