klink

klink

1. Alternative spelling of clink (“prison”)
   • 2011, Death Grips (lyrics and music), “Klink”, in Exmilitary:

     Try to hem me up like for life / Stuck in the klink, haters in blue / How they set me up? Should I test my luck? / Here they come, they're in pursuit

• IPA^(key): /kləŋk/

From Dutch klink, form Middle Dutch clinke.

klink (plural klinke)

1. handle
2. latch

From Dutch klinken, from Middle Dutch clingen, from Old Dutch *clingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą.

klink (present klink, present participle klinkende, past participle geklink)

1. to sound

• IPA^(key): /klɪŋk/

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• Hyphenation: klink
• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

From Middle Dutch clinke. Related to German Klinke.

klink f (plural klinken, diminutive klinkje n)

1. latch
2. handle (on a door)

• deurklink
• klinknagel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

klink

1. inflection of klinken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

klin +‎ -k

• IPA^(key): [klʲiŋk]

klink m inan

1. diminutive of klin

klink

1. imperative of klinka