clink glasses
Touch cups together
To clink glasses is to touch drinking vessels together, producing a ringing sound, as a gesture of celebration or toast: They clinked glasses and wished each other well.
The custom typically accompanies drinking to someone's health, a new venture, or a festive occasion.
The phrase can also function as a noun: a friendly clink of glasses.
- toastHeated bread; glass-raising honor
- cheersCasual toast or farewell
- champagneEffervescent celebratory wine
- sparkling wineCarbonated fermented grape beverage
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
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- toastscheers, wedding toast, birthday toast, champagne toast, graduation toast
- drinking toastscheers, bottoms up, salud, prost, slainte
- eating and drinkingeat, drink, chew, bite, swallow