Meaning & use
tchin-tchin
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Meanings
interjectioninformal
a word said when raising glasses with someone before drinking, like 'cheers'.
Grammar: Used on its own as a toast; it does not take an object.
Patterns
- Tchin-tchin!
- say tchin-tchin
Tchin-tchin! Here's to your new job.
He raised his glass and said, 'Tchin-tchin!'
Everyone laughed and answered, 'Tchin-tchin!'
nouncountableinformal
an act of clinking glasses and drinking to someone's health.
Grammar: Usually singular: we had a tchin-tchin.
Patterns
- have a tchin-tchin
- give someone a tchin-tchin
We had a quick tchin-tchin before dinner.
Let's have a tchin-tchin to the happy couple.
Word forms
| plural | tchin-tchins |
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Common combinations
- say tchin-tchin
- They said tchin-tchin and drank.
- raise a glass and say tchin-tchin
- He raised a glass and said tchin-tchin to the whole table.
- a quick tchin-tchin
- We had a quick tchin-tchin before the meal.
Synonyms and how they differ
Commonly confused: tchin-tchin or chin-chin?
tchin-tchin vs chin-chin
Chin-chin is a common spelling of the same toast; it can also be old-fashioned slang for 'goodbye'.
Practice
Everyone raised their glasses and shouted, '___!'
Choose one answer.
Tchin-tchin is the toast shouted while drinking. The other options are unrelated tax terms or the plural noun, which cannot stand alone as a shout.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “tchin-tchin”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.