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Kink

noun
1.
A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British).  Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick.
2.
A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight.  Synonyms: twirl, twist.
3.
A person with unusual sexual tastes.
4.
An eccentric idea.
5.
A difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation.
verb
(past & past part. kinked; pres. part. kinking)
1.
Curl tightly.  Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up.
2.
Form a curl, curve, or kink.  Synonyms: curl, curve.



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"Kink" Quotes from Famous Books



... really are a pretty sight, My little pigs, so small and white! Their tails have such a curious kink; Their ears are lined with palest pink: They frisk about as brisk and gay As school-boys on a holiday. I watch them scamper to and fro: How clean they look! how fast they grow! But they are only pigs, dear me! And that ...
— The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 4 - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers • Various

... implication; intricacy, intrication[obs3]; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil &c. (convolution) 248; sleave[obs3], tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl[obs3]; webwork[obs3]. [complexity if a task or action] difficulty &c. 704. V. complexify[obs3], complicate. Adj. gnarled, knarled[obs3]. complex, complexed; intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... "I've never had any kink for the law. I don't think I'd be a success at it; and frankly, saving your presence, I don't like it. A lot of it is easy money and a lot of it is money earned in the meanest way there is—playing dirty tricks; putting in ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train

... keen on all that sort of thing while he was at the villa near Falerii. Such knowledge, gained in boyhood, sinks in deep and is never forgotten. He is not playing a part or pretending; he is really enjoying farm life. But what kink in his head makes him fancy that he prefers to enjoy it as a slave rather than as a free man? That puzzles me. Why be sold as a slave in order to bask in rural delights when he could buy the ten largest estates in Britain and never feel the outlay? When after his honorable discharge ...
— The Unwilling Vestal • Edward Lucas White

... at Kink's hotel at Tweipans from time to time. He came, I've already explained, to sell bogus information for good money. And as the boodle ran low, the cloven hoof began to show, and the ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves


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