“We were raised with this mystique about the accident being the chink in this important legacy,” she says.
They ran headlines—not once, but twice—referring to NBA stud Jeremy Lin as a “chink.”
Some of the more unsavory boys from the neighborhood called him “chink.”
They ride silently like shadows, with no clatter of stirrup or chink of bit.
Mr. George heard the chink of the penny as it fell upon the pavement below.
I found a chink in the wall and beheld the face of the Englishman peering from the small end window.
You see, the chink brought us word that there was something going on over here.
Rising silently, Wade stepped up to the wall and peeped through a chink between the logs.
“Oh, I was only thinking about the trick we played on the chink,” chuckled Andy.
I could see a light through the chink of the door in the landing below, and heard a stealthy footstep.
"a split, crack," 1530s, with parasitic -k + Middle English chine (and replacing this word) "fissure, narrow valley," from Old English cinu, cine "fissure," related to cinan "to crack, split, gape," common Germanic (cf. Old Saxon and Old High German kinan, Gothic uskeinan, German keimen "to germinate;" Middle Dutch kene, Old Saxon kin, German Keim "germ;" ), from PIE root *geie- "to sprout, split open." The connection being in the notion of bursting open.
"sharp sound" (especially of coin), 1580s, probably imitative. As a verb from 1580s. Related: Chinked; chinking.
: Chink food/ a chink chick
A Chinese person (1900+)