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Kink

noun

A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British). Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick.

A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight. Synonyms: twirl, twist.

A person with unusual sexual tastes.

An eccentric idea.

A difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation.

verb

(past & past part. kinked; pres. part. kinking)

Curl tightly. Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up.

Form a curl, curve, or kink. Synonyms: curl, curve.

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"Kink" Quotes from Famous Books

... him?" asked the child. "He's ole Aunt Blue-Gum Tempy's Peruny Pearline's boy; an' Peruny Pearline," he continued enthusiastically, "she ain't no ord'nary nigger, her hair ain't got nare kink an' she's got the grandes' clo'es. They ain't nothin' snide 'bout her. She got ten chillens an' ev'y single one of 'em's got a diff'unt pappy, she been married so much. They do say she got Injun blood in ...

— Miss Minerva and William Green Hill • Frances Boyd Calhoun

... was a small man, slovenly in dress, his tone confidential, his manner wholly void of animation, all his features below the forehead protruding—particularly the apple of his throat—hair without a kink in it, a hand with no grip, a meek, hang-dog countenance. a falsehood done in flesh and blood; for while every visible sign about him proclaimed him a poor, witless, useless weakling, the truth was that he had the brains to plan great enterprises and the pluck to carry ...

— The Gilded Age, Part 7. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

... did you think all the ants and doodle-bugs blundered into that grease in one morning? I put 'em in myself—to give you a 'kink.'" ...

— Woodcraft • George W. Sears

... little kink in me might have set me off on the wrong road. And that poor soul I might so easily have been might have had no Margaret. My ...

— Dear Brutus • J. M. Barrie

... no compromise between anarchy and order, or their several adherents. This was, however, the policy of America, and as such received the blessing of every representative, Jew or Gentile, of the U.S.A. in Siberia. Japan saw a kink in the American armour and took full advantage of the chance to damage U.S.A. prestige. She rallied Russian patriotism to her side by advising that no notice be taken of this harebrained suggestion. Japan's advice received the secret blessing of both French and ...

— With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia • John Ward

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