rare. [var. of CHINK sb.3 Cf. JINK v.2] The sharp metallic sound of a coin, or the like, striking against a hard substance; transf. (slang) ‘chink,’ coin.
c. 1775. Roxb. Ball. (1890), VII. 85. No race we shall have I think, for C—s is come without his jink.
1898. Watts-Dunton, Aylwin (1899), 311. ‘Quid seems to jink all right, anyhow,’ she said, ‘though I’m more used to the jink of a tanner than a quid in these cussed times.’
