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The original Clink was an infamous prison in Southwark, London where dissenters and revolutionaries were locked up in Tudor times. Because it lay on the private estate of the Bishop of Winchester (called the Liberty of the Clink) it could be used as a sort of Guantanamo Bay of its time.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 10y agoIf you mean 'clink' as in Prison, it comes from a prison of that name in London in the early 1500's. It also refers to a Dutch word Klink meaning a door latch
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