kink

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A kink in a ribbon.

noun

The definition of a kink is a bend or curl in something that is usually straight, an ache or cramp in a muscle or an unusual mannerism.
1. An example of a kink is a sharp bend in a piece of unwrapped wire.
2. An example of a kink is neck pain from sleeping in a strange position.
3. An example of a kink is always responding with a whistle when people say hello to you.

verb

Kink is defined as to make bends in something that is usually straight.
An example of kink is using a crimping iron on your hair.

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kink

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
1. a mental twist; odd notion; whim; eccentricity
2. a quirk; peculiarity
a difficulty or defect in a plan or process

Origin of kink

from Scand, as in Swedish and Danish kink, akin to Middle Low German kinke, Dutch kink

to form or cause to form a kink or kinks

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kink

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.
A painful muscle spasm, as in the neck or back; a crick.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
A mental peculiarity; a quirk.
An unusual or eccentric idea.
Slang Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behavior or taste.

intr. & tr.v.

kinked, kink·ing, kinks

To form or cause to form a kink or kinks.

Origin of kink

Dutch twist in a rope

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)

To laugh loudly.
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.

Noun

(plural kinks)

A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.

Origin

From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian ("to laugh"; attested by cincung (“a fit of laughter”)), from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).

Noun

(plural kinks)

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.
(slang, countable and uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
(Scotland, dialect) A fit of coughing or laughter.
(mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation

Verb

(third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked)

To form a kink or twist.
(intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

Origin

From Norwegian or Swedish kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”), from Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Cognate with Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”).

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kink - Medical Definition

A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, as one caused by the tensing of a looped section of wire.
A painful muscle spasm, as in the neck or back; a crick.

To form or cause to form a kink or kinks.

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