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third-person singular simple present kinks, present participle kinking, simple past and past participle kinked
To laugh loudly. examples
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing. examples
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. examples
countable and uncountable, plural kinks
A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. examples
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system. examples
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice. quotations examples
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.
1856, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers
(informal, countable or uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste. quotations examples
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
(informal, countable) A person with peculiar sexual tastes. quotations examples
"What do they think you know?""No more than I've told you. That he's a kink. He rapes people and kills people and spends too much money and flies grass in."
1985, John Dann MacDonald, Five Complete Travis McGee Novels, page 254
“He's a kink. All I have to do is toss off my clothes and dance around his apartment while he sits and drools.”
2013, James Hadley Chase, A Can of Worms
(mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation. examples
(transitive) To form a kink or twist. examples
(intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist. examples