kink
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɪŋk/
kink (kinks, present participle kinking; past and past participle kinked)
Nounkink (plural kinks)
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
kink
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
- (slang, countable and uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- 2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13:
- To top it all off, Lynn is into kink. Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.
- 2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13:
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation
- (unusual sexuality) normophilia
- French: hic, imprévu
- Russian: пробле́ма
- Spanish: problema, impedimento, pero, inconveniente
- Italian: perversione
- Portuguese: tara
- Russian: заско́к
- Spanish: desviación, rareza, desvarío, excentricidad
kink (kinks, present participle kinking; past and past participle kinked)
- (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
- (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.
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