tink
IPA: tˈɪŋk
noun
- (dated) A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.
- (chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the travelling community. A gypsy.
verb
- To emit a high-pitched sharp or metallic noise.
- (knitting, slang, transitive) To unknit.
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Examples of "tink" in Sentences
- Tink, in the future, don't do that.
- I would tink that goes without saying.
- The Knights welcome Tink back into the guild.
- Codex tracks down Tink at a basketball court.
- Black headed Plover has a metallic tink tink call.
- Black headed Plover has a metallic 'tink tink' call.
- Bladezz and Tink reluctantly apologize to each other.
- Listen for the "tink" of hitting the rail telling me I'm getting close.
- Displeased, Tink leaves the Knights of Good and joins the Axis of Anarchy.
- Lovers stroll by on dirt paths; metal petanque balls "tink" against each other nearby.
- The pedal now clunked againsed the chain guard, and made a nice rythmic "tink" with each revolution.
- In Singaporean English (known as Singlish), think is pronounced "tink," and theories is "tee-oh-rees."
- The tip landed in the middle of his bony chest and skated over each rib, going * tink, tink, tink* through the handle, like
- They found the noise generated by the titanium clubs hitting a golf ball is far louder than the "tink" of the steel club making a shot.
- While the steel clubs produced the agreeable 'tink' of a well-hit shot, the titanium ones were much louder, described by some as similar to a gun being fired.
- Reports from state auditors say some teachers pronounce words such as think as "tink" and violet as "biolet" and leave off the ending sounds of words, saying "doin" instead of "doing."
- At one school, for example, state auditors complained that teachers pronounced "words such as violet as 'biolet,' think as 'tink' and swallow the ending sounds of words, as they sometimes do in Spanish."
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