Chinkers, subs. (old).—1. Money.—See Chink.
1834. Taylor, Ph. van Artevelde, pt. II., iii., 1. We’re vile
crossbow-men, and a knight are you, But steel is steel, and flesh
is still but flesh, So let us see your chinkers.
1887. Baumann, A Slang Ditty. Rum coves that relieve us of chinkers
and pieces, Is gin’rally lagged, Or, wuss luck, they gits scragged.
2. (thieves’).—Handcuffs united by a chain. [Derivation obvious.] For
synonyms, see Darbies.
Chin-Music, subs. (American).—Talk; chatter; oratory. Cf., Chin-wag.
The French say casser un mot.
1872. S. L. Clemens (‘Mark Twain’), Roughing It, p. 332. The thing
I’m now on is to roust out somebody to jerk a little chin-music for
us.
1874. S. L. Clemens (‘Mark Twain’), Gilded Age. Whereupon a young
sprig ... began to sass [sauce] the conductor with his chin-music.
1876, Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly, ch. xxvi. ‘I am not,’ said
he, ‘going to orate. You did not come here, I guess, to hear me pay
out chin-music.’
1883. Bread-Winners, 77. If we have joined this order to listen to
chin-music the rest of our lives.
Chinning, verbal subs. (American).—Chatting; talking.