clink

Clink! Jesus frog! I never realised what a kiss could be!
You couldn't make it up. In order, the top three most commented on, currently.

I like klink. It's just ... better.

Now's your chance! :-)

And I've got Wort to the Wise, which has various drinks amongst other brewing terms. If you look under porter, you'll find some other beer lists.

There should be one called What Ales You, however.

I've had one too (just for liqueurs), and I'm sure there are others. :-)

Someone does now, c_b.

Wow. That's so...specific.

qroqqa, I refer you to weirdnet's eighth definition.

A prison door doesn't go 'clink'. That's a small noise appropriate to wine glasses. Doors, especially big doors, might go 'clank'.

The OED has this to say about the second definition of "clink" (the first is the noise, derived from German or Dutch klink):

"The evidence appears to indicate that the name was proper to the Southwark ‘Clink’, and thence transferred elsewhere; but the converse may have been the fact. If the name was originally descriptive, various senses of clink, e.g. ‘to fasten securely’ (cf. ‘to get the clinch’, CLINCH n. 7), might have given rise to it. Cf. also CLINK n.4
The name of a noted prison in Southwark; later used elsewhere (esp. in Devon and Cornwall) for a small and dismal prison or prison-cell, a lock-up. Now used generally for: prison, cells."

And "clinch n.7" says this: "1847 G. W. M. REYNOLDS Myst. London III. xxv. 71/2 Should you do this and get the clinch. 1873 Slang Dict., To get the clinch: to be locked up in jail."

Also, interestingly, clink can mean "A very small poor ale, brewed chiefly for the use of harvest labourers." Doesn't someone have a list of different kinds of alcohol?

It's got to be from the sound of the doors, surely? Probably the street was named for its prison, or it was coincidence.

British slang - "Noun. Prison. It is derived either from the name of Clink Street, London, on which a prison was situated, or from the sound of doors locking."
- peevish.co.uk

I like most slang for prisons. I also dig its onomatopoeic property.