clinking adj.
excellent, admirable, first-rate, esp. of racehorses.
![]() | Post to Finish I 111: We have got two clinking four-year-olds in the stable. | |
![]() | Sheffield Wkly Teleg. 21 Mar. 3/3: ‘We’ve had a clinkin’ tea for ninepence apiece’. | |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Apr. 24/1: Patterson proved cold pie for the bantam premier in the next term, and was sent sleeping by a clinking right on the point. | |
![]() | Close of Play 25: Be dead to office rule, / And, rolling roycily along / The tarmac, hum that clinking song / You learnt at Harrow School! | ‘Safety First’ in