A term in English for when you "clink" (?) or touch glasses together [duplicate]

The term I've always heard used for this is clinking glasses.

[intransitive, transitive] to make or cause something to make a sharp ringing sound, like that of glasses being hit against each other
SYNONYM chink

  • clinking coins
  • The coins clinked into the slot in the machine.
  • clink something They clinked glasses and drank to each other's health.

—Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Here's a quote from the "Ettiquette International" web page about toasting, which uses the word:

End on a positive note. A toast should always be upbeat. Lead your audience to a conclusion with a generally accepted gesture like "Raise your glass" or clinking.


A toast means you lift up your glass and say something to those present. And it may not include clinking/touching glasses at all. Similarly, you can clink glasses with someone, and have no toast at all. Clinking glasses means you lightly touch your glass to someone else's glass.


Consider, toast glasses

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