What is "chin chin"

Etymology 1 n. a small Nigerian cookie-like snack made from fried wheat flour dough containing eggs and sometimes also cowpeas Etymology 2

interj. A toast used when drinking, similar to ''cheers''; most often used in Argentina, Portugal, and the United Kingdom; spelled cin cin or cincin in Italian

Chin chin is a fried snack popular in West Africa. It was created in Nigeria, and is similar to the Scandinavian snack klenat, a crunchy, donut-like baked or fried dough of wheat flour, and other customary baking items. Chin chin may also contain cowpeas. Many people also bake it with ground nutmeg for flavor.

The dough is usually kneaded and cut into small squares of 1 square inch or so, about a quarter of an inch thick, before frying.

• Chin Chin, a fried food popular in Nigeria.
• Chin Chin, a punk/new wave band active in the 1980s
• Chin Chin, a 1997 album, by Australian group, Skunkhour
• Chin Chin Gutierrez, a Filipino actress and environmentalist
• Chinchin, a town in Armenia
• A ceremonial toast in Argentina, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. Also, cin cin in Italy
• A Chinese three-string banjo
• A song performed by the fictional Japanese girl-group, Bang Wa Cherry, in the movie Blade
• Japanese slang for penis

Chin Chin is the third album by Australian band Skunkhour. It was released in 1997 and peaked at No.34 on the Australian album charts in August. The album was the second on the Sony/Epic label and was produced by Magoo, whose credits included Regurgitator and Powderfinger.

Three singles were taken from the album—"Breathing Through My Eyes" (May 1997), "Weightlessness" (August) and "Morning Rolls" (November).

The album was the band's first after the departure of founding vocalist/rapper Del Larkin, who quit to pursue a career in Walt Disney Animation Studios. Bassist Dean Sutherland told the Herald Sun the lineup change forced a reshaping of the band's sound from funk-influenced hip hop to robust electronic soul. "It's the exit of the rap and the entrance of melody," he said. "I love hip hop, but with Del leaving, we weren't going to try and fill his shoes by getting another rapper, so we just continued without him."

The band conceived and developed many of the tracks while touring in Europe in early 1997 and said the sound bore some European influences. "We get a lot of our musical ideas from sound checks," guitarist Warwick Scott told The Age. "We just jammed and a lot of the new material came from those sound checks all over Europe."