To toast, cheers, or touch glasses of any type of alcohol together with your drinking partner(s) in the spirit of goodwill, health, luck, or congratulations.
In many cultures, it's considered to be good luck to make eye contact when doing so (and bad luck not to).
Some
people also follow a tradition of tapping the
bar with the glass after clicking glasses (and before drinking) to express fondness for the business/bar and the
people who work there.
A few examples of what's said during the clinking of
glasses; each culture/group has their own:
- Cheers!
- Salud!
- Tchin Tchin!
- Slainte
-
May the
best of your yesterdays be the worst of your tomorrows.
- Sweethearts and wives (may they never meet)