Kink

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  • noun. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, as one caused by the tensing of a looped section of wire.
  • noun. A painful muscle spasm, as in the neck or back; a crick.
  • noun. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
  • noun. A mental peculiarity; a quirk.
  • noun. An unusual or eccentric idea.
  • noun. Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behavior or taste.
  • intransitive & transitive verb. To form or cause to form a kink or kinks.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A knot-like contraction or curl in a thread, cord, or rope, or in a hair, wire, or chain, resulting from its being twisted or doubled upon itself, or from the nature of the material. Also kinkle.
  • noun. An unreasonable and obstinate notion; a crotchet; a whim.
  • To form kinks; twist or contract into knots.
  • To become entangled: said of a line.
  • noun. A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of the breath; the whoop in whooping-cough; a gasping for breath caused by coughing, laughing, or crying.
  • To laugh loudly.
  • To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing: especially applied to the noisy inspiration of breath in whooping-cough.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.
  • noun. A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
  • noun. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
  • intransitive verb. To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To laugh loudly.
  • verb. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
  • noun. A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
  • noun. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
  • noun. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
  • noun. Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
  • noun. A fit of coughing or laughter.
  • noun. A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation
  • verb. To form a kink.
  • verb. To be formed into a kink.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. form a curl, curve, or kink
  • noun. a person with unusual sexual tastes
  • noun. a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
  • noun. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
  • noun. a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
  • noun. an eccentric idea
  • verb. curl tightly
  • Word Usage
    "I think that's fair, since what's one person's kink is majorly disturbing to someone else."
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    kinked  kinking  kinkle  kinkster  kinky  
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    kinked  kinking  kinks