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noun | verb chinkchink1 /tʃɪŋk/ noun ETYMOLOGYchink1Origin: (1,3) 1500-1600 Probably from chin crack (11-16 centuries), from Old English cine (2) 1500-1600 From the sound 1a chink in somebody’s armor a weakness in someone’s character, argument, etc. that you can use to attack him or her: Opponents are looking for chinks in his political armor.2[countable] a narrow crack or hole in something that lets light or air through: Through a chink in the shutter we could see Ralph.3[countable] a short high ringing sound made by metal or glass objects hitting each other: the chink of knives and forks noun | verb chinkchink2 verb [intransitive, transitive] VERB TABLEchink |
| Present | I, you, we, they | chink | | he, she, it | chinks | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | chinked | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have chinked | | he, she, it | has chinked | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had chinked | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will chink | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have chinked |
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| Present | I | am chinking | | he, she, it | is chinking | | you, we, they | are chinking | | Past | I, he, she, it | was chinking | | you, we, they | were chinking | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been chinking | | he, she, it | has been chinking | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been chinking | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be chinking | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been chinking |
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