What's the action of banging two beers together called? [closed]
When beers in cans or bottles are banged together in rejoice of the company you're with, what is the action called?
Solution 1:
They clinked their bottles. From thefreedictionary:
clink - make a high sound typical of glass; "champagne glasses clinked to make a toast"
Less commonly, they chinked bottles. All variants are often followed by the word together.
Because cans don't really make quite the same sound, I might say clunked or clonked or clanked instead if cans were involved. Those vowels suggest a somewhat lower note when struck together.
EDIT: clanked borrowed from @cynthia-hartwig's deleted answer. Can't think of everything!
Solution 2:
"They clanked beers" or "They clanked their tankards," along with the following toast:
For every wound, a balm.
For every sorrow, cheer.
For every storm, a calm.
For every thirst, a beer.
Solution 3:
A cheers: "a drinking toast,"
or
a toast: "The act of raising a glass and drinking in honor of or to the health of a person or thing."