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- bizarre or unconventional sexual preferences or behavior.
- a person characterized by such preferences or behavior.
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Musk acknowledged that not all of the kink s have been worked out of the planned battery improvements.
While Apple is still working through some kink s that have allowed third-party cookies to work in some instances when the feature is switched on, all browsers on iOS and iPad OS will have ITP switched on by the end of the year.
This, combined with the fact that you’re yanking on random stuff, causes kink s in the cable, which make it even less friendly to wind.
Despite some kink s, the text predictor is already really good.
The story doesn’t quite end there though, because stellar history has some curious kink s in it, associated with the actual formation of stars in the first place.
Indeed--she has helped educate the world on the titillating culture of kink .
In 2011, Rihanna vocalized her own taste for kink in her hit single SM.
On the one hand, she was anxious about her colleagues knowing about her kink .
Those needs varied depending on where respondents were in the kink universe.
Sometimes she sees clients who are ambivalent about their kink identities.
Every pull in the shoulders, every hitch in the back, every kink in the sleeves makes me a profound materialist.
There resulted a kink in his nature, a contradiction that appears repeatedly, not only in his life, but in his writings.
He stood up straight, throwing back his shoulders to take the kink out of them.
Short by comparison with the English cat, thin throughout, a little thicker towards the base, without any break or kink .
First the pack, as packs sometimes will for no visible reason, developed a kink that galled his shoulders obstinately.
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kink noun [C] ( TWIST/CURVE )
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kinks; kinked; kinking
A kink is a bend or a twist in an otherwise straight line, like a kink in a garden hose that blocks water from flowing freely.
When something kinks , it bends to form a kink or curl — if your hair kinks in the rain, it gets tightly curly. You can also have a kink in your neck, a tight muscle that cramps painfully. Yet another kind of kink is a problem, complication, or weakness in a plan: "The major kink in her plan turned out to be that no one was interested in buying hand-knitted cat sweaters."
- noun a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight synonyms: twirl , twist see more see less type of: bend , crease , crimp , flexure , fold , plication an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- verb curl tightly synonyms: crape , crimp , frizz , frizzle , kink up see more see less type of: curl , wave twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- verb form a curl, curve, or kink synonyms: curl , curve see more see less type of: change surface undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface
- noun a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) synonyms: crick , rick , wrick see more see less type of: cramp , muscle spasm , spasm a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- noun a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation “there are still a few kinks to iron out” see more see less type of: difficulty a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result
- noun an eccentric idea see more see less type of: idea , thought the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- noun a person with unusual sexual tastes see more see less type of: individual , mortal , person , somebody , someone , soul a human being
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kink Definitions and Synonyms
There’s a kink in the wire .
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From the american heritage® dictionary of the english language, 5th edition..
- 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 Slang Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behavior or taste.
- intransitive & transitive verb To form or cause to form a kink or kinks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. 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 colloq. 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.
from 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 slang Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste .
- noun Scotland, dialect A fit of coughing or laughter .
- noun mathematics A positive 1- soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation
- verb transitive To form a kink.
- verb intransitive To be formed into a kink.
from 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
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From the american heritage® dictionary of the english language, 4th edition, from wiktionary, creative commons attribution/share-alike license.
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- boring pain
- charley horse
- complication
- darting pain
- deformation
- disfiguration
- disfigurement
- eccentricity
- fantastic notion
- fool notion
- freakish inspiration
- fulgurant pain
- girdle pain
- harebrained idea
- idiosyncrasy
- imperfection
- jumping pain
- lancinating pain
- little problem
- needle scar
- passing fancy
- port-wine mark
- port-wine stain
- sebaceous cyst
- shooting pain
- shortcoming
- something missing
- stabbing pain
- strawberry mark
- vulnerable place
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- change surface
- muscle spasm
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vanishedone commented on the word kink
This strikes me as another less-than-obvious definition, but then I'm a Brit. A Brit who speaks of having a crick in the neck.
chained_bear commented on the word kink
Which makes me wonder, actually, if it's "and" or "an," in the Shakespearean sense--that is, "an" meaning "if." "God willing an the crick don't rise" means something a little different than "and the crick don't rise."
I got rather off-track here, but anyway...
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noun ; 1 · a short tight twist or curl caused by a doubling or winding of something upon itself ; 3 · a clever unusual way of doing something ; 4 · a
kink · bizarre or unconventional sexual preferences or behavior. · a person characterized by such preferences or behavior.
an unwanted twist or bend in a wire, rope, pipe, etc. that is usually straight: There was a kink in the pipe. Track inspectors were watching for kinks
If something kinks or is kinked, it has, or it develops, a curve or twist in it. ...her wet hair kinking in the breeze. Care is needed when loading the roll to
A kink is a bend or a twist in an otherwise straight line, like a kink in a garden hose that blocks water from flowing freely. When something kinks, it bends to
Kink Definition · A short twist, curl, or bend in a thread, rope, hair, wire, etc. · A painful muscle spasm or cramp in the neck, back, etc.; crick. · A mental
sexual tastes for a person. Usually a kink is an unusual taste in sexual behaviour. The following example is NOT me or anyone i know. One of jane's KINKS
KINK meaning: 1 : a tight bend or curl in something (such as a rope or hose) usually + in; 2 : a pain especially in your neck or back that is caused by
Definition of KINK (noun): bend or twist in something straight; problem or strange thing.
noun Slang Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behavior or taste. intransitive & transitive verb To form or cause to form a kink or kinks. from The Century